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The Equity Gap

The Equity Gap

Written by: Scaled Purpose
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This is a three-part documentary podcast series about community land trusts and credit unions in Ontario who are working together to solve a stubborn problem: the equity gap that prevents communities from acquiring land collectively to keep it permanently affordable. The series follows the people behind a solutions lab in Ontario led by the Canadian Credit Union Association and Scaled Purpose as they ask: How can credit unions leverage innovative financing tools to help community land trusts overcome the equity gap to deliver more affordable housing?

Scaled Purpose, 2026 Social Sciences
Episodes
  • What if we owned the land together: Community Land Trusts

    What if we owned the land together: Community Land Trusts
    May 4 2026

    What would it mean to own land together — and keep it affordable, forever?

    This first episode of The Equity Gap explores the growing movement of community land trusts: organizations that remove land from the speculative market and put it under community control. From Toronto's Kensington Market to Ottawa and Waterloo Region, meet the people working to close the equity gap standing between communities and the land beneath their feet.

    THANKS TO OUR GUESTS

    Chiyi Tam, Executive Director, Chinatown Community Land Trust

    Sean Campbell, Executive Director, Union Co-operative

    Dominique Russell, Co-director of Community, Kensington Market Community Land Trust

    Mike Bulthuis, Executive Director, Ottawa Community Land Trust

    CREDITS

    Produced and edited by Jay Harrison and Deren Atkins at Untied Productions. Hosted by Jay Harrison.

    Music courtesy of Epidemic Sound. Music featured in this episode includes: Finish Line by Mizlo, Filter (Instrumental Version) by Nic Hanson, Very Important Pineapple by Scoobadive, Lucky 7s by Guustavv, Some Kind of Friend (Instrumental Version) by Vicki Vox, and Infinity by Northside.

    This series was made possible by the Canadian Credit Union Association and Scaled Purpose, with support from Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.
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    48 mins
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