Vertical peripheries: Planning and citizenship in Colombia's commodified periurban housing towers

Project Investigators: Luisa Sotomayor and Lina Brand Correa Funding: SSHRC Insight Grant Term: 2022-2025 This interdisciplinary research project (Canada, Colombia, urban planning, anthropology, development studies, and ecological economics) will investigate the implementation and effects of Colombia's market-based housing policy as it restructures the country's metropolitan peripheries. Specifically, the project aims to understand how commodified social

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Luisa Sotomayor

Associate Professor Director of City Institute Credentials PhD Planning, University of TorontoMSc Planning, University of TorontoBA Sociology, National University of Colombia Research Keywords Urban Planning and Policy; Housing; Urban Governance; Informality; Participatory Planning. Graduate Supervision I supervise students in the graduate programs in Environmental Studies, MA Geography, MES Planning and BES Cities, Regions & Planning. Contact Information Kaneff Tower, Room

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Yes In MyBackyard: Demystifying Shelters and Reframing CommunityDialogue about Homelessness in Toronto

Principal Investigator: Luisa Sotomayor. Partner: City of Toronto. Funding: SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant. Term: 2020-2022. The main goal of this Partnership Engage Grant (PEG) project is to build a strong research collaboration between managers and policy officers at the City of Toronto's Shelter Support and Housing Administration (SSHA) division and faculty and researchers at York

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Reframing public dialogue about homelessness: Building housing solidarity during COVID-19

Professor Luisa Sotomayor’s new SSHRC Partnership Engage project examines community responses to the siting and development of new homeless shelters and supportive housing in Toronto. As Sotomayor explains, “the introduction of new housing for a low-income or vulnerable group in a community is typically not without local conflict. In fact, the acronym NIMBY—or Not-in-My-Backyard—refers to an increasingly common

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