Professor
Expertise
Affordable housing, housing affordability, public housing, community planning and development, community engagement, community-university partnerships, community-based research, real estate
In the Media
- Experts call for more equitable housing policy post-COVID-19
- Affordability crisis reaches Vancouver suburbs increasing homelessness threat: Report
- Union Gospel Mission, UBC release report on homelessness and affordability
- National strategy needed to ease homelessness, housing supply: UBC expert
- Canada building less social housing despite risk of increased homelessness: UBC study
- Stronger tools needed to fix affordable housing “crisis”, say UBC researchers
- Bringing justice to housing costs
- Survey reveals discrimination, instability in Vancouver housing market
What language you speak or your age could affect your search for a place to rent in Metro Vancouver – News 1130
One-in-six Metro Van renters face landlord discrimination, survey finds – The Tyee
1 in 6 Metro Vancouverites have been discriminated against by landlords: survey – The Province
What needs to be done to end homelessness in Vancouver – Co-op Radio
Why Utopian plans to create friendly cities where people can say hi and hug a stranger are doomed to fail – National Post
Gurstein, P., “What Needs to Be Done to End Homelessness,” Vancouver Sun, May 3: C5.