Spacing Radio Podcast
1) The Overhead: Community Land Trusts Gaining Ground
A good news story in recent years is the amount of progress Community Land Trusts (CLTs) have made in communities across the country. New CLTs are being established, and existing ones are winning by-...Show More
2) The Overhead: Decommodifying Housing
On previous episodes of this series, we've talked about the impact of an over-financialized housing market. It adds to the affordability crisis, and leads to eviction and displacement. In this episod...Show More
3) Episode 91: Talking Transit 2025
This year has been one of major change. But what doesn’t change here is talking about transit. It’s the return of Tricia Wood (York University urban geography professor and Spacing contributor) and Ma...Show More
4) The Overhead: Indigenous-Led Housing
THIS EPISODE: Indigenous-led Housing What does Indigenous housing look like? Are there special forms of housing needed by Indigenous communities in particular to address specific health and community...Show More
5) Episode 90: Bless This Urban Mess
Change in cities is often slow, when using official channels. There is a desire to achieve the perfect plan, one that balances everyone's needs an preferences. But sometimes you need to get down and d...Show More
6) Episode 89: Global Ideas for Local Placemaking
In this episode we bring you the highlights from Global Placemaking Summit which took place in March at Evergreen in Toronto. First, we drill down into the meaning to the term with some of the event ...Show More
7) The Overhead: Non-Profit Housing and Gentle Density
In the federal election just passed, we heard many big ideas about how to tackle the housing crisis. And we could sure use a major effort from our new federal government. But there is also a lot of re...Show More
8) Episode 88: Big City Mayor Takes on Canadian Housing
In this episode, with Prime Minister Mark Carney's pick of former Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson as Minister of Housing and Infrastructure, we reached out to longtime urban affairs writer Frances Bu...Show More
9) Episode 87: Building Housing With Election Planks
Episode 87: Building Housing With Election Planks by Spacing Radio
10) The Overhead: The Housing Crisis in Trump's America
We can learn a lot about evictions and the housing crisis from cities in other countries, all over the world. Often, we draw comparisons to our neighbour just south of the border: the United States. J...Show More