Profile: Nick Falvo
Nick Falvo’s research interests include homelessness, affordable housing, social assistance post-secondary education policy. He is the author of several policy papers on homelessness and affordable housing, 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.
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, the PhD rep on SPPA’s Management Committee, a member of Carleton’s Graduate Faculty Board, a member of Carleton’s Senate, a frequent blogger and op-ed writer, a member of the Ontario reference group for the Mental Health Commission of Canada‘s national housing strategy, and an occasional guest lecturer. Finally, he is a steering committee member of the Progressive Economics Forum (PEF), and is 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, followed by 10 years working as a front-line community worker with homeless persons in Toronto.
Recent Media