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 Michael
Shapcott
Co-ordinator, Community/University Research Partnerships Unit,
Centre for Urban and Community Studies,
University of Toronto
Michael Shapcott coordinates the Community/University
Research Partnerships (CURP) program at the Centre for Urban and Community
Studies. The program promotes policy-relevant scholarship and applied
research and the exchange of knowledge between community agencies or
associations and university-based researchers. CURP represents the University
of Toronto’s contribution to improved knowledge and applied scholarship
on the practical problems and policy issues associated with urban living,
with a particular focus on poverty, housing, homelessness, community
planning, social well-being, and social justice issues.
Mr. Shapcott is a long-time community-based advocate for housing and
solutions to homelessness. He has worked at the local, provincial, national,
and international levels on both governmental and non-governmental initiatives.
Before starting work at the Centre for Urban and Community Studies,
he was Manager of Government Relations and Communications – Ontario
Region for the Co-operative Housing Federation of Canada. From 1990
to 1993, Mr. Shapcott coordinated the Rupert Pilot Project, an innovative
community development project to provide housing and services for 525
rooming house tenants. Previously, he was a community worker with homeless
adults at the Toronto Christian Resource Centre.
Mr. Shapcott is co-chair and a founding member of the National Housing
and Homelessness Network and a founding member of the Toronto Disaster
Relief Committee, the Toronto Coalition Against Homelessness, and the
Bread Not Circuses Coalition. In 2000, he was a non-governmental organization
representative to the forum on Capacity Building for Disaster Mitigation
and Reconstruction in Istanbul, Turkey. In 1991, the provincial government
appointed him to serve on the corporate minimum tax working group of
the Ontario Fair Tax Commission.
Mr. Shapcott spent ten years as a journalist, working as a reporter,
columnist, and editor for several newspapers. He continues to carry
out applied, policy-relevant research and produce plain-language reports
and popular education materials on housing and homelessness. He contributes
opinion pieces for national and local media. He is a keynote speaker
for local, provincial, and national audiences on housing, homelessness,
and social justice issues.
He attended the Faculty of General Studies at the University of Calgary
and the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto, and has completed
the Intensive Programme in Poverty Law at Parkdale Community Legal Services,
specializing in landlord and tenant law.
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