Craig E. Jones

Associate Director, Housing Assessment Resource Tools (HART)
MA (UBC), PhD (UBC)

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    Brock North, 6177 Walter Gage Road, Room 1032

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Dr. Craig Jones is the Associate Director of the award-winning Housing Assessment Resource Tools (HART) project. Craig received his PhD from UBC’s Department of Geography, and is one of the foremost researchers on transit-oriented development, rental housing, evictions, and Census housing data. Craig is also the recipient of the Open Data Leader Award from the Canadian Open Data Society.

Housing Assessment Resource Tools (HART)
Craig Jones

Organization Affiliations

  • Allard School of Law

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Can we solve Canada’s housing crisis by providing better data on housing needs, building non-market housing on vacant public land, mitigating the effects of no-fault evictions, and developing strategies to preserve existing affordability in the rental market?

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  2. The Globe and Mail: Despite rise in Vancouver rental vacancies, affordability is still a distant dream
  3. The Globe and Mail: Underused public land in some of Canada’s larger cities could house a million people, study shows
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