Nick Falvo is a doctoral candidate at Carleton's School of Public Policy and Administration and teaches a course on affordable housing and homelessness in Carleton's School of Social Work. His research interests include homelessness, affordable housing, social assistance and post-secondary education policy. He is the author of several policy papers, including a primer on homelessness and social housing, a policy paper looking at various options for improving housing affordability, a paper on the Housing First approach to housing the homeless, and a policy paper on the Great Recession's impact on homelessness.
Under the supervision of Prof. Frances Abele, he is currently the main researcher on a three-year, SSHRC-funded research project exploring homelessness and affordable housing in the Northwest Territories—a partnership with the Centre for Northern Families. And his doctoral dissertation, under the supervision of Prof. Saul Schwartz, consists of three essays on social assistance.
Nick is the Vice-President Finance of Carleton's Graduate Students' Association, a member of Carleton's Senate (and Senate Executive), a frequent blogger and op-ed writer, and a member of the Ontario reference group for the Mental Health Commission of Canada's national housing strategy. Finally, he is a steering committee member of the Progressive Economics Forum (PEF) and the PEF Events Coordinator for the Annual Conference of the Canadian Economics Association.
Prior to his doctoral studies, Nick was a Parliamentary Intern in Ottawa, and then worked for 10 years as a front-line community worker with homeless persons in Toronto.
Contact him at nfalvo@connect.carleton.ca
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