Jason Spicer, University of Toronto

Research

community land trusts community development affordable housing social housing alternative enterprises organizations and movements urban policy housing policy

Latest funding

Machine Learning-Based Typologies of Community Land Trusts in North America
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$32,780
Machine Learning-Based Typologies of Community Land Trusts in North America
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$41,806

All 2 grants and awards

Machine Learning-Based Typologies of Community Land Trusts in North America

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Spicer, Jason

Keywords: community land trusts; community development; affordable housing; social housing; alternative enterprises; organizations and movements; urban policy; housing policy; social policy; shared equity homeownership

$32,780

Machine Learning-Based Typologies of Community Land Trusts in North America

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Spicer, Jason

Keywords: community land trusts; community development; affordable housing; social housing; alternative enterprises; organizations and movements; urban policy; housing policy; social policy; shared equity homeownership

$41,806

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: community land trusts Dear Professor Spicer, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research on community land trusts connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your SSHRC-funded project "Machine Learning-Based Typologies of Community Land Trusts in North America" (2022), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]