Legislation /Literature Review (Phase 1) - Level UP

Available positions: 4 students. Student 1: Examine the TRC (Truth and Reconciliation Commission) Calls to Action and summarize the points related to Housing. Then examine the City of Edmonton Indigenous Framework and line up the similar points that reference housing. Summarize and categorize these two documents' goals and objectives. Student 2: Review Canada's Poverty Reduction Strategy and the EndPoverty Edmonton Action Plan and pull out all the housing related action items and details from both documents. Conduct a literature review related to affordable housing initiatives in Canada. Student 3: Review the new City of Edmonton Municipal Development Plan (MDP) called City Plan. Pull out all the sections regarding housing objectives. Review the City's Infill Roadmap and also pull out all the objectives and opportunities. Finally take the City's Nodes and Corridors work (going back 7 years to when the work was initiated under Wesley Andreas at the City) and determine how the most current documents align with the City Plan. Summarize these three documents. Student 4: Summarize the Human Rights to Housing argument and proposed legislations, arguments and current status.

Tenant Screening /Intake Research - Level UP

Available positions: 4 students. Student 1: Create a chart that summarizes the Human Rights to Housing findings against the results of Project 1, 2, & 3. This is the milestone project that draws a line in the sand of what the Policy Makers have written down as their Vision. Student 2: Review the current intake process methods used by Edmonton Housing Providers (CRH, GEF, Niginan, Homeward Trust) and create a chart of potential areas of Human Rights to Housing violations. Student 3: Conduct research and identify precedent documents used in tenant management in affordable housing developments. E.g. application, eligibility determination, interview questions. Student 4: Conduct a literature review related to Code of Conduct for tenant communities in general and for affordable housing projects in particular.

Tenant Screening /Intake Design - Level UP

Available positions: 4 students. Student 1: Review the current intake process methods used by Edmonton Housing Providers (CRH, GEF, Niginan, Homeward Trust) and create a chart of potential areas of Human Rights to Housing violations. Student 2: Define the Objectives of Green Violin's tenant screening process and create an "idealized" Intake Process (application form + interview). Student 3: Create the Green Violin Code of Conduct for tenant community respect and behavior, including the consequences and remedies for contraindications. Student 4: Review the Landlord and Tenant Act (LTA) and highlight where the objectives of Green Violin's tenant screening process might contradict the LTA. Create a list of Green Violin operational barriers caused by the LTA clashing with the Intake Process and the Code of Conduct

Legislation /Literature Review (Phase 2) - Level UP

Available positions: 4 students. Student 1: Investigate the Co-op living model including current legislation and a sample of typical bylaws and rights of co-op members. We will coordinate with expert opinion from Communitas, Sundance Coop, and the Alberta Community and Co-operative Association (ACCA). Student 2: Investigate Co-Housing models and legal precedents. Student 3: Review of the bareland condo subdivision regulations and lot registration procedures (in consultation with condo lawyers). Student 4: Summarize the Co-op, co-housing, and bareland condo information in a comparative chart.