Research

As a community-rooted organization anchored at Concordia University, SEIZE supports practical, movement-oriented research that strengthens the solidarity economy in Montréal and beyond. Our research initiatives emerge from real organizing needs and aimed at helping cooperatives, students, and community partners build knowledge, test ideas, and grow capacity across sectors.

Below is an archive of projects, studies, and learning tools developed in collaboration with SEIZE members, student researchers, and academic allies.

Tech policy

As an extension of our Tech Coops report and in collaboration with IT sector cooperators, We are exploring policy areas of campaigning and advocacy.

Housing Justice

A national survey of housing groups to identify points of consensus and debate around policy, action and organizing.

Land Back Map

SEIZE is undertaking an ambitious project to create the first-ever comprehensive
Crown Land & Treaties Map of Canada, designed to be accessible to the public.

From Crisis to Consensus

SEIZE conducted a national survey of tenant union organizers, advocacy groups, and community organizations. The views expressed in the report diverge sharply from the loudest opinions on the housing crisis. Groups directly representing people at the front-lines of the housing crisis have been largely missing from the opinion columns, policy announcements and blue-ribbon panels that attempt to address the housing crisis.

Some of the key findings about these groups’ policy views include:

A consensus of the groups favours publicly-funded social housing
A strong majority support direct action to protect or improve access to housing, including 80% support of rent control policies
A near-consensus supports financing non-profit housing and cooperatives
The only policy measure that received strong opposition was government incentives for private rental housing