Mr Steve Pomeroy, Canada

Steve Pomeroy (MA in Urban Planning and Urban Land Economics from University of British Columbia, 1984) is a housing policy research consultant, based in Ottawa, Canada. He has over 25 years of experience in the non-profit sector, local government and with Canada’s federal housing agency Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. He is the former Manager of the CMHC Centre for Future Studies in Housing and Living Environments (1990-94) and has undertaken a number of assignments linking neighbourhoods, urban growth and housing issues.

In 1994 Steve established Focus Consulting Inc. and has since then has completed over 100 reports and studies covering issues of socio-economic analysis, homelessness, housing policy and affordable housing financing and housing as a system. His work includes a number of comparative international reviews examining policy and practice across a range of OECD countries.

He is widely recognised as one of the leading housing policy experts in Canada and has been an advisor to a number of national associations, municipalities and provinces dealing with government restructuring and development of comprehensive housing strategies.

In January 2007 he was appointed as a Senior Research Fellow with the Centre on Governance and will help the centre to develop a research and teaching focus in the area of housing and urban issues.