Purpose & Need

A Yellowhead Institute Red Paper: The Land Back project is about reclaiming indigenous jurisdiction. The Red Paper is about how Canada dispossesses indigenous peoples from the land and what communities are doing to get it back.

June 18, 2020 Land For Community Benefit Final Report. With the arrival of the Covid19 Pandemic, many not-for-profits and social enterprises were called to the fore—supporting society and vulnerable populations to safely move through the crisis, all the while seeing their operating contexts and...

This report aims to put land where it belongs: at the heart of political debate and discussion. It proposes radical but practical changes in the way land in the UK is used and governed. - George Monbiot

A new program by VEC, businesses and organizations can sign up for Industrial Concierge Services to connect to opportunities for industrial space-sharing in Vancouver.

"Creating and preserving affordable housing and other community-owned assets in Canada is more critical than ever given the rapid escalation of real estate costs and the relative stagnation of wages in major urban markets. This makes the need for the non-profit sector to increase its real estate...

SPRE's landmark first ever study in Canada. Examines the impacts of the commercial real estate market on non profits and social enterprises in the Vancouver region.