Christine Pacini

Partner

Development Innovation Policy

Christine Pacini is one of the founding partners of SHS.

Christine has worked as a consultant for most of her 35 year career. She has also worked for the Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing as a Policy Advisor and a Program Coordinator, and for the City of Toronto as a Councillor’s Special Advisor on Housing.

Christine is involved in every aspect of SHS’s work. She is the partner in charge of SHS’s business innovation practice area. Christine has authored and/or directed more than 200 studies, primarily focused on housing-related topics including housing needs assessments and strategies, policy development, program design and evaluations, feasibility and business plans, and business and service models. She has led the development of a range of projects including shelters, transitional, supportive, seniors and family housing, as well as administrative and program space.

Current Work

Christine is working on CMHC Solution Labs to design new housing solutions and a range housing research and development projects, including a women’s shelter, transitional housing, and affordable housing developments for seniors, youth and families.

Education

Graduate courses in public administration (Carleton University)

Bachelor of Arts (Honours), Public Policy and Administration (York University)

Read about the impact Christine has had in these case studies:

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Wigwamen Incorporated

Wigwamen Markham Road - 2024

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Ontario Non-Profit Housing Association

Community Housing for the Future Solutions Lab
2022

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National Housing Council

Co-Creating the Right to Adequate Housing
2023

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Blue Door

Housing Journeys Reimagined Solutions Lab
2022

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Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation

Systemic Barriers to the Creation of Affordable Housing
2022

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Upper Hammonds Plains CLT

Driving Transformation: The Power of Land Trusts in African Nova Scotian Communities Solutions Lab
2024

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77 Bloor Street West, Suite 600
Toronto ON
M5S 1M2

77 Bloor Street West, Suite 600
Toronto ON
M5S 1M2

At SHS we acknowledge the lands we are on are the traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat peoples and are now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples. We also acknowledge that the location of our office in Toronto is covered by Treaty 13. In our work, we strive to continually reflect on our relationship to the land we are currently inhabiting and how our role as actors in the housing system can support the reconciliation process.