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Housing Options

April 14, 2022 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT

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Join us for conversations on Housing Options.

Various guest speakers will join to discuss housing options, existing housing communities and provide information on starting points.

In this session we welcome guest speaker Stephanie Allen, the CEO of BC Housing who is a housing development specialist focused on building affordable, equitable communities.

Stephanie Allen is a housing development specialist focused on building affordable, equitable communities. She holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration and a master’s in urban studies. Stephanie’s masters research focused on the settlement and displacement of Black communities and documented the work done in Vancouver to seek redress for the displacement of Hogan’s Alley. She was awarded the 2020-2021 Western Association of Graduate Schools (WAGS) and ProQuest Distinguished Master’s Thesis Award in humanities, social sciences, education, and business disciplines for her research. Most recently, she was the recipient of the 2021 BC Multiculturalism and Anti-Racism Awards, in the Breaking Barriers category, for tackling systemic racism and reducing barriers for communities that experience marginalization. Stephanie has worked in the private, non-profit, and public sectors of real estate since 2002 and is a founding board member of Hogan’s Alley Society. She is currently the Vice President of Strategic Business Operations and Performance for BC Housing.

 

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Family Support Institute of BC (FSI) is a provincial not-for-profit society committed to supporting families who have a family member with a disability. FSI is unique in Canada and the only grass roots family to family organization that has a broad volunteer base.

FSI SUPPORTS AND SERVICES ARE FREE TO ANY FAMILY

You are invited to join FSI CONTINUING CONVERSATIONS, a private Facebook Group intended to continue conversations of support or provide an alternative platform for support. www.facebook.com/groups/fsicontinuingconversations/

All FSI Zoom sessions can be accessed by telephone only if access to computers and/or internet is a barrier. If you need assistance registering for any session, please call our office at 1-800-441-5403.

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Details

Date:
April 14, 2022
Time:
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT
Event Category:

Organizer

Family Support Institute BC
Phone:
778000000

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Facilitator
Ben Postmus & Rachel Skidmore
Intended Audience
Families

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