Your Voice. Your Home. 
Meeting the Housing Needs of Burnaby Residents

Residents of Burnaby and across the region are currently experiencing a housing crisis. Housing costs have risen in recent years, existing affordable homes are being lost, supply is not meeting local demand and many residents are being left behind. Your Voice. Your Home. Meeting the Housing Needs of Burnaby Residents was an innovative partnership between the City of Burnaby and SFU’s Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue, designed to engage the community and inform the work of the Mayor’s Task Force on Community Housing.

The project was highly integrated with the Mayor’s Task Force on Community Housing and demonstrated new ways to co-create solutions with residents, stakeholders and technical experts. Over six months, the process generated recommendations and engaged with more than 2,600 residents, making it the largest public engagement process ever undertaken by the City of Burnaby. Your Voice. Your Home. Meeting the Housing Needs of Burnaby Residents provided a set of unique in-person and online engagement opportunities for community members to gather and share ideas, present recommendations and engage with one another to find workable solutions. The project consisted of three phases resulting in three publicly available reports. 

The project was recognized by Burnaby Now! as the 2019 “Newsmaker of the Year” and the International Association of Public Participation as Runner Up for its 2020 Core Values Award in the category of “Creativity, Contribution and Innovation in the Field.”