Searching for Solutions
As the former mayor of a mid-size Canadian city, I witnessed firsthand the growing social challenges facing communities across North America. Searching for Solutions explores urgent issues like the housing crisis, homelessness, mental health, addiction, and food insecurity and, more importantly, the disruptive ideas that are making a real difference.
Each episode features a guest who helps unpack a problem and points toward practical, proven solutions.
This podcast is for anyone who cares about their community and wants to move from frustration to action at a time when too many people feel powerless to create change.
Searching for Solutions
A new company looks to unlock spaces within homes to provide housing for students
Use Left/Right to seek, Home/End to jump to start or end. Hold shift to jump forward or backward.
In university and college towns, the pressure for housing has exhausted the housing market due to a continuous increase in enrolments that hasn't been matched by an increase in on-campus student living spaces. This has created an even more intense housing crisis for those communities.
On this episode of Searching for Solutions, Rylan Kinnon, Co-Founder & CEO of SpacesShared talks about a novel homesharing technology that lets students who are looking for a safe, affordable place to stay quickly and affordably connect with older adult hosts. Launched in 2023, SpacesShared matches compatible students and older adults interested in homesharing. it's a great story about a micro solution to a housing crisis that is going to require many more of these kind of ideas to unlock more much needed housing spaces in our communities.