The Roadmap Report is a culmination of WoodGreen’s CMHC Solutions Lab on Modelling Transitional Housing for Vulnerable Youth. Funded by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC), in partnership with WoodGreen Community Services, PARTISANS, and PROCESS, this Solutions Lab aimed to develop a set of key architectural design principles and solutions that could inform future built-for-purpose transitional housing sites for youth who are homeless or at risk of being homeless, with a focus on youth aging out of the child welfare system.

Adopting a mixture of qualitative and quantitative research to explore potential solutions in social programming, architecture, and design, the culminating Roadmap Report provides a path forward for innovative approaches to innovative short, medium, and long-term housing models to support youth transitioning out of care.