Dr. Carolyn Whitzman is a housing and social policy consultant. She has worked as an expert advisor to UBC’s Housing Assessment Resource Tools (HART) project, which developed standardized best practices for analysing housing need, using government land for nonmarket housing, and nonmarket property acquisition, using detailed, open data. Currently, she works as a senior housing researcher at University of Toronto’s School of Cities, scanning best practices to scale affordable ‘missing middle’, modular, and replicable housing.

Carolyn is the author, co-author or lead editor of six books, including the forthcoming Home Truths: Fixing Canada’s Housing Crisis (UBC On Point Press, October 2024) and Clara at the Door with a Revolver: the scandalous Black suspect, the exemplary white son, and the murder that shocked Toronto (UBC On Point Press, 2023).