{"id":63749,"date":"2020-02-20T11:01:04","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T16:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?p=63749"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:36:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:36:32","slug":"carleton-to-host-expert-panel-on-the-importance-of-housing-in-the-health-of-a-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/2020\/carleton-to-host-expert-panel-on-the-importance-of-housing-in-the-health-of-a-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Carleton to Host Expert Panel on the Importance of Housing in the Health of a City"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Carleton to Host Expert Panel on the Importance of Housing in the Health of a City\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Carleton University\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences<\/a> is hosting a series of expert panels to explore the many factors \u2013 from climate and nature to youth and art \u2013 that make a healthy city in 2020. The five-part series continues with its third panel: <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/healthy-cities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Housing in the City<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>When<\/strong>: Monday, Feb. 24, 2020 at 7 p.m.<br>\n<strong>Where<\/strong>: Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre, 355 Cooper Street, Ottawa<br>\n<strong>Info<\/strong>: Registration is <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/healthy-cities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">available online<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Media are invited to attend this event.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Panel experts include Catherine McKenney, councillor of Somerset Ward, Abra Adamo, adviser of Housing Policy and Research at Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC), and Josh Hawley, PhD candidate in the <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Department of Sociology and Anthropology<\/a>. Sociology Prof. Aaron Doyle will moderate the panel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Panel members will discuss the importance of housing in the health of a city. First elected in 2014, McKenney is focused on improving life in Ottawa by supporting affordable housing and local businesses, improving transit and public spaces, building streets for pedestrians and protecting heritage. Adamo has more than 10 years of experience in urban planning, housing and homelessness policy, having worked in partnership with stakeholders to create and preserve affordable housing and more sustainable and inclusive neighbourhoods. Hawley\u2019s research focuses on empowering tenants against systemic injustices. He has helped launch the Collective Justice Centre, which is dedicated to providing equitable access to justice through legal and community organizing services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Media Contact<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elizabeth Murphy<br>\nCommunications Co-ordinator<br>\nCarleton University<br>\n613-520-2600, ext. 8834<br>\n<a href=\"mailto:Elizabeth.Murphy@carleton.ca\">Elizabeth.Murphy@carleton.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Follow us on Twitter<\/strong>:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/cunewsroom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.twitter.com\/Cunewsroom<\/a><br>\n<strong>Need an expert? Go to<\/strong>:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.carleton.ca\/newsroom\/experts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.carleton.ca\/newsroom\/experts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carleton University\u2019s Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences is hosting a series of expert panels to explore the many factors \u2013 from climate and nature to youth and art \u2013 that make a healthy city in 2020. The five-part series continues with its third panel: Housing in the City. When: Monday, Feb. 24, 2020 at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":62600,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[80,124],"class_list":["post-63749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-advisories","tag-fass","tag-sociology-and-anthropology"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63750,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63749\/revisions\/63750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}