Affordable Housing Social Innovation Lab

In 2019, Between the Bridges hosted a five-day Social Innovation Lab on Affordable Housing in Dartmouth North. Multi-sector stakeholders with a wide-range of collective experience and perspectives were invited to work together. Seven participants (including the Public Good Society) came from the Community Sector, two from the Private Sector, eight were residents, and four came from Government (two municipal, one provincial, and one federal).

The group was facilitated through a process that identified three prototype solutions on which self-selecting participants would focus their time and energy to have the greatest impact. A leading concept from that Social Innovation Lab was the creation of a role in the community that could support non-profit agencies who want to develop new affordable housing units in Dartmouth North - a goal the Public Good Society and others continue to pursue.