On The Way Home

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Canadian housing conversations rooted in dignity.

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On The Way Home treats housing as more than buildings. Through Canadian conversations on youth homelessness, supportive housing, municipal delivery, tenant services, and non-market models, it connects policy language to the daily realities of stability, dignity, and care.

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On The Way Home is a Canadian housing and homelessness series built around practical, values-driven conversations. It is careful, humane, and unusually operational. The show does not treat home as a slogan. It asks guests to define it, then follows that answer into the systems that either protect or undermine stability, safety, dignity, and belonging. Episodes move across policy, municipal implementation, supportive housing, youth homelessness, social housing operations, reconciliation, and non-market development. The range is broad. The throughline is concrete action. Conversations with guests such as Sheldon Pollitt, Robert Barnard, Jessica DeVries, Jason Miles, Bailey Wacke, Brian Doucette, Michelle Parisian, and Mark Ashton show how housing work happens at different levels of the Canadian system. Some discussions focus on partnerships and coalitions. Others examine city data, underused urban spaces, tenant service backlogs, public land, rent control choices, and the limits of market-only thinking. The show is at its strongest when it connects an institutional problem to a human consequence. A bounced cheque, a delayed rental calculation, an unsuitable shelter environment, or the absence of youth voice becomes evidence that design matters. It also leaves space for personal testimony, including recovery, addiction, chronic homelessness, and the difference made by safe supportive housing. The pacing is conversational rather than investigative. The questions are generous, but they still push toward practice. Listeners hear how programs are built, where systems strain, and why frontline knowledge matters. The result is a steady editorial window into Canadian housing work: hopeful, specific, and more interested in durable change than easy answers.

Made for: Best suited to people working in housing, homelessness, social services, municipal policy, youth support, community development, or advocacy. It also fits listeners who want a practical Canadian view of how housing solutions are built.

What sets it apart: The show pairs personal definitions of home with the operational details of housing work, moving from belonging and dignity into service design, partnerships, public land, and program delivery. Its Canadian lens keeps the issues specific rather than generic.

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On the Way Home is a podcast that brings together the voices and issues involved in ending homelessness in Canada. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026

It connects Canadian housing policy to the operational choices that determine whether people find and keep stable homes.

On The Way Home turns Canada's housing crisis into a sequence of decisions about land, funding, service design and daily administration. Emmy Kelley uses interviews with researchers and housing-sector leaders to move from the meaning of home to the machinery that can protect it,…

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Rent control, youth housing, and Helsinki's playbook give your housing-crisis frustration somewhere practical to go.

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to challenge market-first housing logic with public land, preservation, and rent control
to compare Canada's patchwork response with Finland's coordinated approach

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From Policy to Practice: Building Affordable Housing at the Municipal Level with Jessica DeVreeze

From Survival to Stability: Jason Miles on Home, Recovery, and Hope

Making home ownership affordable across Canada, a chat with Habitat for Humanity Canada, CEO, Pedro Barata

Centering Youth Voice and Reconciliation with Bailey Waukey

Thinking Beyond the Market with Brian Doucet

Designing Better Systems for Better Service with Michelle Parisien

Meeting Young People Where They Are with Mark Aston

Postcards From Helsinki: What Canada Can Learn About Ending Homelessness

Scaling Care Without Losing the Human Touch with Alain Cadieux

Towards Housing Justice: A Conversation with Dr. Prentiss Dantzler

Housing Is Health: What Dunn House Teaches Us About Upstream Care with Dr. Andrew Boozary

Reimagining Co-op Housing with Heather Tremain

Building for the Long Term: How Partnerships Power Supportive Housing in Ottawa

Costs vs. Prices: Adam Mongrain on Rethinking Canada’s Housing Diagnosis

Re-Igniting the Future of Housing: Introducing Ontario’s Affordable Housing Investment Fund

Beyond the Buzzwords: What “Scale” and "Innovation" Really Means in Housing

From Evidence to Action: Nick Falvo on Paths to Ending Homelessness in Canada

Heather McDonald on Built for Good and Unafraid to Be First and Fast

Building Canada’s Housing Future: A Conversation with CHRA’s Ray Sullivan

Building a Society That Works: Finland’s Housing First Transformation

Powering Affordability: How Energy Efficiency Supports Non-Market Housing

Reframing Housing: Leilani Farha on Human Rights, Financialization, and Hope

Communicating Impact and Driving Systems Change in Housing

Marie-Josée Houle: Advancing the Right to Housing

Building Futures: The Launch of Construct Canada

From Functional Zero to National Momentum: Tim Richter on What’s Next for Ending Homelessness in Canada

Building Housing, Trust, and Community Power "Brique par Brique"

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Disruption and Compassion in Housing Leadership with Phillip Mills

Housing and Health: Building Integrated Solutions with Intention with Alex Cheng

Blueprints for Change: Vicky’s Path from Construct to Community Leader

Bold Ideas for a Dignified Future + Leadership, Trust, and Ending Poverty with Neil

Seizing the Moment: Housing’s Historic Shift with John Fox

Reimagining Housing: with Purpose and Partnership with Scott

Home & Healing: Integrated Mental Health & Housing with Nicole Jones

Reimagining Cities for Youth: Co-Living, Data, and the Future of Housing with Robert Barnard

Diving into the Canadian “Homefront”: Housing Affordability & Innovation on Daniel Foch

Housing Justice and Grassroots Change with Aislinn Clancy

Boardroom to Frontline: How Collective Leadership is Reshaping Toronto’s Shelter System

Bill by Bill: Unpacking Ontario’s Legislative Impact on Housing and Homelessness

Tech and AI Innovations for Urban Planning with Devin Tu

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Taking action with Cheryll Case and CP Planning

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Lived experience and the prevention of youth homelessness with Jayne

Supporting Toronto’s most vulnerable with Cari

A different way to finance and build housing with Mark and Aleeya

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Drilling down on the Federal Liberals' Housing Platform with Minister Nathaniel Erskine-Smith

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Dunn House- the creation of Social medicine

Healthcare on the move with Carolyn Dyer

Bridging the Divides: Voices & Visions about Homelessness in Mid-Size Cities- A new documentary

Social Housing and Human Rights Coalition with Shauna

Housing, Homelessness and the Ontario Election- A Panel Discussion

Encampments in Ontario and the threat of using force and punishment to clear them- a panel discussion

Q&A Special- with Michael Braithwaite

Preventing Youth Homelessness in Wales with Bill Rowlands

The United Way steps into Social Purpose Real Estate with Stefphon and Ruth

Food insecurity and the affordability crisis with Sahar and Richard

Housing as Infrastructure with Martin Joyce

Why Government Relations strategy matters in the battle to end homelessness

Making Housing Matter as a City Councilor with Ariel Troster

An ounce of prevention with Melanie & Stephen

How can the Non-profit sector play a bigger role in affordable housing

Fixing the Housing Crisis with Carolyn Whitzman

Building solutions to the housing crisis with Cahdco with Adrian

Green Homes and Healthier Living: Michael Quast on Passive House Canada’s Vision for Sustainable Housing

Green Homes and Healthier Living: Michael Quast on Passive House Canada’s Vision for Sustainable Housing