About Us
The Halal Housing Solutions Lab Project Sponsor
Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) is Canada’s national housing agency. The CMHC Solutions Lab program is intended to support multidisciplinary, holistic and committed project teams that will develop roadmaps to implement innovative solutions to address identified housing problems within the National Housing Strategy (NHS) priority theme areas and priority populations. Solutions Labs provide funding and expert solution lab consultants to help solve complex housing problems using innovation methods and tools.
The Halal Housing Solutions Lab Project Partners
IslamicFamily supports the mother who is fleeing abuse without making her compromise her identity or safety. We support the man seeking counselling that respects his values. We support youth looking for a creative platform that appreciates and amplifies their voice. We support families beginning new lives amidst hardship. We are IslamicFamily & we are created to serve.
For more than 30 years, we have been driven to disrupt systemic inequity, to reflect a rich tradition with beauty, to innovate & to serve with excellence. IslamicFamily serves 5000 clients every month, runs Edmonton’s second largest food bank, provides aid in financial crises, supports victims of gender-based violence, settles refugees, and delivers a range of preventative programming for youth. IslamicFamily is rooted on Treaty 6 and proudly serves all of Alberta.
At Intelligent Futures, we help organizations sharpen their focus to navigate complex challenges and effect tangible change. Drawing on urban planning roots and strategic, design and systems thinking, we guide tenacious clients across all sectors through planning, development and revitalization for solutions that impact community, culture, society and the environment. The crux – change is a shapeshifter. A brighter future that’s more equitable, sustainable and prosperous is the unifying yield. Lofty? Maybe. Impossible? Hardly.
Another Way is a unique consulting firm based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada that specializes in Community Economic Development (CED). Anna Bubel is the principal consultant. Her vision of community empowerment, cooperation, and equity translates into a practice that focuses on building capacity; on relentlessly pursuing “Another Way”.
Another Way is solely owned and operated by Anna Bubel. She assembles unique, specialized teams to meet client’s needs. This approach provides clients a cost-effective way to receive multi-disciplinary, professional services from lawyers, accountants, architects, statisticians, computer programmers, researchers, writers and graphic designers.
SAS Architecture Ltd. is a scalable firm, capable of managing the delivery of large and small projects with unique sustainable design services that generate solutions suitable to the needs of the client. The firm has four staff located in Edmonton and two virtual staff who work off-site. We are a well-established firm in Edmonton adept in our virtual design office environment. We are also innovators. Innovative projects are designed to be greener infrastructure environments that achieve higher standards of well-being using integrated design and construction processes to execute the work.
ASK* for a Better World provides trust-based project facilitation, consulting and leadership to move architecture and urban design to higher aspirations. ASK* provides a multitude of consulting services including high performance building consulting, carbon neutral, net zero or net positive energy, and regenerative buildings, including building retrofits.
ASK* aims to create a better world through Lean and collaborative culture that delivers exactly what their clients need through design thinking, pull-planning and asking the right questions. With over 22 years of experience, Ask for a Better World has created a collaborative studio that consults on regenerative architecture, with a goal to show the benefit of reducing carbon in design, construction and operations.