Moderator: Mark Guslits

After practicing as an architect and affordable housing consultant in Canada and the UK, Mark now works primarily as an urban revitalization/mixed income/mixed tenure residential development consultant and educator. Over the years, along with managing his own urban design & architecture consulting firm (Mark Guslits & Associates Inc.), he has been design architect for Guinness Breweries in London, England; Managing Partner with Sankey Architects in Vancouver, B.C.; partner with a large Toronto residential development company (the Daniels Group) focusing on affordable housing; Special Advisor on Housing to the City of Toronto (Let’s Build Program); Chief Development Officer for the Toronto Community Housing Corporation overseeing the initiation and first phase of the Regent Park Revitalization project and, with HOK Architects, acting as project lead in the development of the Pan Am Athletes Village/Canary District on Toronto’s Waterfront. He continues to consult to clients in Toronto, Vancouver, South Africa, and Ireland, and has, until recently, been teaching urban design/global development at the Institute Without Boundaries at George Brown College in Toronto and at the Munk School of Global Affairs at University of Toronto. Currently Mark is an adjunct professor at the Daniels School of Architecture at U of T teaching a course in Affordable Housing. He currently sits on or has recently completed his term with several boards of directors relating to the work he has pursued during his career to date - Board of Governors, George Brown College; Board of Directors - Canadian Association to End Homelessness (CAEH); Chairman, and now past -Member Board of Directors, ANPHI non-profit housing (previously Artscape); Currently, Member, Board of Directors – CreateTO (City of Toronto Land Development Corp).