{"id":3035,"date":"2020-11-16T10:43:47","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T15:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/?p=3035"},"modified":"2022-11-16T10:44:05","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T15:44:05","slug":"ivanhoe-cambridge-social-value-of-buildings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cancea.ca\/index.php\/2020\/11\/16\/ivanhoe-cambridge-social-value-of-buildings\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivanho\u00e9 Cambridge: Social Value of Buildings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ivanho\u00e9 Cambridge is a global developer and investor in real estate that has a sustainable impact on local communities. As part of a commitment to sustainability and social impact, Ivanho\u00e9 Cambridge asked CANCEA to measure the social impact on individuals and communities of including affordable housing units within the residential properties in its portfolio.<\/p>\n

The benefits of affordable housing extend beyond the number of units built or households housed; they can include impacts on health, employment, GDP and broader social implications for the wider region. Affordable housing provides households with the opportunity to improve their circumstances, for instance, by living in a location that may be closer to their place of work, to schools and to the services they access. It can improve the well-being of individuals and communities by offering households better alternatives to what is available and affordable to them in the wider housing market. Many of the benefits that affordable housing provides relate directly to the socioeconomic determinants of health.<\/p>\n

Social return on investment (SROI) offers a viable way to demonstrate the impact of Ivanho\u00e9 Cambridge\u2019s investments in affordable housing by empirically quantifying the benefits that housing brings to residents and the local economy.<\/p>\n

CMHC\u2019s recommended framework, which CANCEA helped develop[1]<\/a>, includes the following eight categories:<\/p>\n