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“Housing research plays a critical role in making sure Canadian decision-makers have the best possible information on which to base their plans and strategies for housing in our country. This Housing Research Central website is a resource for all members of Canada's housing research community—the people and organizations that use, sponsor or conduct research. It provides an overview of who's involved, where research is conducted and where research outputs can be found—and includes a specialized search of Theses Canada abstracts to locate student work. Housing Research Central connects you directly to the NHRC's activities through discussions, video webcasts and presentations. You can also join the Canadian Housing Research Network and dialogue with the community.”

Mobiles in-a-box from the Tactical Technology Collective is a collection of tools, tactics, how-to guides and case studies designed to help advocacy and activist organisations use mobile technology in their work. Mobiles in-a-box is designed to inspire you, to present possibilities for the use of mobile telephony in your work and to introduce you to some tools which may help you. After reading the material in this toolkit you can expect to be able to design and implement a mobile advocacy strategy for your organisation.

Data presentation can be beautiful, elegant and descriptive. There are a variety of conventional ways to visualize data - tables, histograms, pie charts and bar graphs are being used every day, in every project and on every possible occasion. However, to convey a message to your readers effectively, sometimes you need more than just a simple pie chart of your results. In fact, there are much better, profound, creative and absolutely fascinating ways to visualize data. Many of them might become ubiquitous in the next few years. So what can we expect? Which innovative ideas are already being used? And what are the most creative approaches to present data in ways we’ve never thought before? Let’s take a look at the most interesting modern approaches to data visualization as well as related articles, resources and tools.

A blog of outdoor knitting, knitting as graffiti, etc.

CityWiki is the Smarter Cities forum for the discussion of the criteria and methodology that will be used in evaluating U.S. cities in future versions of our research. We invite city officials, urban planners, members of academe and all of our readers to participate in the open discussion of what constitutes a smarter, more sustainable city.

The Cities Exchange is a place where every town, city and village in the world can share innovative practices, experiences and initiatives in their drive for sustainability.

Mobile Tech 4 Social Change Camps are local events for people passionate about using mobile technology for social impact and to make the world a better place. Each event includes interactive discussions, hands-on-demos, collaborative scheming about ways to use, develop, and deploy mobile technologies in health, advocacy, economic development, environment, human rights, citizen media, to name a few areas.

IT’S too bad so many people are falling into poverty at a time when it’s almost illegal to be poor. You won’t be arrested for shopping in a Dollar Store, but if you are truly, deeply, in-the-streets poor, you’re well advised not to engage in any of the biological necessities of life — like sitting, sleeping, lying down or loitering. City officials boast that there is nothing discriminatory about the ordinances that afflict the destitute, most of which go back to the dawn of gentrification in the ’80s and ’90s. “If you’re lying on a sidewalk, whether you’re homeless or a millionaire, you’re in violation of the ordinance,” a city attorney in St. Petersburg, Fla., said in June, echoing Anatole France’s immortal observation that “the law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges.”

“What if 300,000 people did the same act of kindness in a day?” An iPhone app for collective action.