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Join OPPI Eastern District and the Social Planning Council of Kingston and District for a FREE screening of "Thinking Beyond the Market: A film about genuinely affordable housing" followed by an engaging discussion with local panelists and the filmmaker, Dr. Brian Doucet. This event is free and open to the public at Kingston's beloved independent movie theatre, The Screening Room. Registration is required and you will receive a confirmation email from OPPI upon successful registration. For OPPI members, this activity qualifies for Continuous Professional Learning credits. The film will begin promptly at 5:45pm.

More details: This documentary will take you across Canada to learn about policies, programs and projects that are already happening and already having a positive impact on addressing the housing crisis. From using public land to build non-market housing in Kitchener and Whistler, and inspiring Indigenous-led projects in Vancouver, to strong tenant protections and rent control in BC and PEI, the examples in this film demonstrate how solutions are making a difference in communities big and small. The film features interviews with more than 30 planners, policymakers, politicians, developers, residents and housing advocates from coast to coast. The film inspires and challenges us to think about both the root causes of the housing crisis and transformative solutions. Dr Brian Doucet is an author, filmmaker, photographer, researcher, award-winning teacher and Associate Professor in Planning at the University of Waterloo. His work critically examines housing, gentrification, displacement, transportation and neighbourhood change.

Find out more about the movie and other screening locations at www.housingfilm.ca This movie screening is being hosted jointly by the Social Planning Council of Kingston and District (SPCK&D) and the Ontario Professional Planners Institute (OPPI) Eastern District Leadership Team. SPCK&D is a not-for-profit, non-governmental organization and registered charity that has operated in Kingston since 1930. Throughout its history, the SPCK&D has been concerned with the state of social service needs and for the well being of residents in Kingston and surrounding counties. The SPCK&D mandate is to provide leadership to identify the unmet social needs in the community, to offer resources to understand the unmet needs, and to empower others to work collaboratively with SPCK&D to seek solutions to these unmet needs. More information about the SPCK&D, including recently-published reports, can be found at www.spckingstonanddistrict.org.

More information about OPPI can be found at: https://ontarioplanners.ca/oppi/about-oppi. 

For more information about registration or other aspects of this event, please email Holly Crawford RPP, MCIP, at holly.crawford@queensu.ca or Leslie at spckingston00@gmail.com. 

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