Steve Pomeroy

Pomeroy is a housing policy research consultant and is widely recognized as one of the leading housing policy experts in Canada. He has been an adviser to a number of national associations, municipalities, provinces and territories. 

Steve has over 35 years of experience in policy research, strategic analysis, program implementation and market research related to housing issues. The substantive focus of much of his work has been affordable housing and urban development. He has worked in the municipal level as an urban planner (1980-82) the non-profit sector in co-operative housing development (1983-83), and from 1984-1994 held a variety of senior positions with Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.

In July 1994 Steve established Focus Consulting Inc. Since 1994 he has completed over 200 reports and studies. These have included extensive research on affordable housing financing, alternative financing models, housing projections, market analysis, socio-economic analysis, feasibility analysis of rental development, housing need and affordability studies, analysis of homelessness and neighbourhood renewal/regeneration.

In January 2007 he was appointed as a Senior Research Fellow with the University of Ottawa Centre on Governance. In 2012 he also joined Carleton University Centre for Urban Research and Education (CURE) where is now a Senior Research Fellow as well as an Adjunct Professor in the School of Public Policy at Carleton University, in Ottawa. He is also a key member of the Canadian Housing Evidence Collaborative at McMaster University, the CMHC-SSHRC funded national housing hub.

In addition to ongoing research and policy analysis, Steve frequently posts blogs and commentaries on current housing issues and provides interviews to local and national media.