Melissa Giblon
Housing Policy and Research Analyst
Mel is an Analyst, Housing Policy at SHS. Mel is incredibly passionate about the provision of affordable housing, and is excited to be part of a team centred around finding innovative solutions to the protection, preservation, and development of truly affordable housing. Mel strongly believes in an equity-based, community-centred approach to affordable housing policies, and brings with her years of experience volunteering, organizing, and collaborating in the housing sector.
Over the past several years, Mel has worked in and out of labs conducting quantitative and qualitative research on the systems that govern effective policy-making; in this role she continues this work, performing environmental scans, assessing policy frameworks, employing literature reviews, and conducting data analyses.
Current Work
Mel is currently working across several projects implementing a wide range of affordable housing strategies, housing needs assessments, non-profit governance reviews, and more!
Education
Master of Arts, Critical Human Geography (York University)
Bachelor of Science (Honours), Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Human Geography (University of Toronto)
