Board Members
Roger Maloney, Chair.
Roger Maloney is a founding member and the current Chair of SHSC. His is the former Chief Administrative Officer of the Region of Peel. He left Region in late 2005 after 30 years service to establish and municipal consulting business called “Trysta Municipal Consulting Inc” which continues to be active today. Roger began his career with Peel in the late 1970s and rose through the ranks to become the senior staff person in 1997. Prior to his promotion to CAO, he held the position of Commissioner of Housing and General Manager of Peel Living and before that headed Peel’s long term care facilities. During his time as CAO with Peel, Roger lead Peel’s Excellence Journey which resulted in the Region earning the National Quality Institute’s prestigious Gold Award of Excellence in 2005. Peel is the only government in Canada to have earned this award of distinction.
Prior to joining Peel, Roger held several positions with the Government of Ontario in the Ministry of Community and Social Services. Roger has also worked closely with a variety of community groups and was instrumental in the Region’s involvement with the United Way of Peel Region. He has been active in the housing sector for many years and has served on the boards of the Ontario Non-Profit Housing Association, including serving two years as President, and the Canadian Housing and Renewal Association. Roger continues his long term commitment to volunteerism by sitting on the Board of Victoria Park Community Homes in Hamilton. He has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology and English from the University of Western Ontario. Roger lives in Oakville with his Partner Shirley.
Colin Gage, Vice-Chair.
Colin Gage is the Executive Director of Victoria Park Community Homes, one of Ontario’s largest private non-profit housing corporations with 1,984 homes in the cities of Hamilton and Brantford, and the Regional Municipalities of Waterloo and Halton, as well as additional property management responsibilities for another four non-profits totaling 297 units. Before joining Victoria Park in 1985, he worked for the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation. He has earned his Certified Property Manager (CPM) and Certified Reserve Planner (CRP) designations from the Institute of Real Estate Management and currently serves a Chair of the Lakeshore – Niagara Chapter. Colin is active on housing advisory groups in the service manager areas in which Victoria Park has real estate holdings; he has also served on committees and the board of the Ontario Non-Profit Housing Association (ONPHA), including four years as Vice-President representing private non-profits. In 2003, Colin won ONPHA’s “Sybil Frenette Outstanding Leadership Award” for his contribution to non-profit housing. Colin is also an active member on the Board of Directors of the Social Housing Services Corporation and currently serves as Chair of Green Light On A Better Environment (GLOBE), a subsidiary of the Social Housing Services Corporation.
Lynn Carson
Lynn is retired from Nepean Housing Corporation where she was General Manager for 13 years. Prior to that, she worked at the Eastern Regional Office of the MMAH and at Ottawa Housing Corp. In 2008 Lynn was awarded the ONPHA Outstanding Leadership Award.
Over the past few years, Lynn oversaw the change in status for NHC from a municipal to a private non-profit, the development of three new affordable housing communities, and an initiative to bring community development to all of NHC’s communities with the goal of ensuring safe, active and inclusive communities for all residents. NHC won the ONPHA Award of Excellence for its innovative response to tenant and community needs and a CMHC Award for Affordable Housing Innovation. Lynn’s Board experience includes ONPHA, CHRA, Pinecrest Queensway Community & Health Centre, and she was the President of Ottawa’s coordinated access Registry for nine years, and remains on that Board as Past President.
Larry O'Connor
Larry is the current Mayor for the Township of Brock, Ontario. President of both the Brock Non-Profit Housing and Durham Non-Profit Housing Corporations, and served as Secretary/Treasurer for nine years on both corporations board prior. A Durham Regional Councillor since 1997, Larry served as Chair of the region’s Health and Social Services Committee. He has served as President of the Association of Public Health Agencies (alPHa) for two terms. Larry was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 1995, serving as MPP for the riding of Durham York.
Larry is an active advocate for social housing and recently participated on the Mayors Panel discussing Affordable Housing at the Quebec City Canadian Housing Renewal Congress.
Pam Cripps
Pam Cripps has been the co-ordinator of Kanata Co-operative Homes since 1999; previously she managed the Dobbin Housing Co-operative in Kanata. Pam’s contributions to the city of Kanata extends outside of the Community housing world; she has served as a city councillor from 1994 – 2000 and was Hydro Commissioner from 1997-2000. She is a current member of the Ottawa Social Housing Network Steering Committee.
Diane Deans
Diane Deans has served as City Councillor in Ottawa for the past 15 years. Her housing-related work includes serving on the board of directors of Ottawa’s City Living for seven years, helping to establish the City’s first housing cooperative for disabled people, and participating in an eight unit Habitat for Humanity Build. Diane has been a member of the Board of Directors of SHSC for the past five years, and is Chairperson of the Policy and Priorities Committee and the Political Advisory Committee. Diane also serves on the Executive of SHSC. In her role as City Councillor, Diane is chairperson of the Community and Protective Services committee, responsible for 47% of the City of Ottawa’s total budget, overseeing Housing and Social Services. Diane is also a member of the Audit, Budget, and Finance committee, and Corporate Services and Economic Development committee. Diane has a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Guelph.
Mike Feldman
Mike Feldman was Deputy Mayor of the City of Toronto and a Councillor in northern Toronto, a community he has served since 1992 on North York and then Toronto Council. He has been actively involved in social housing for many years, chairing the Metro Housing Development Corporation. He also served on task forces dealing with housing for the physically disabled, low-income singles, boarders and lodgers, OHC Board, MTHA, Metro Homes for Aged Board, Provincial Social Housing Reform Committee, Social Committee to merge MTHCL and City Home during Toronto amalgamation.
Mike was President of Beth Emeth Bais Yehuda Synagogue and Past President of the Ontario Region of the United Synagogue of America. He is retired from his position as founding president of Teela Data Management, which specializes in real estate information. He and his wife, Sue, have three children and four grandchildren.
Michael Harding
Michael Harding was elected the 69th Mayor of the City of Woodstock in 2003 and re-elected to a second term in 2006. Over the last number of years he has served on the Police Service Board and is the current Chair, Chaired Woodstock Hydro Holdings and continues his commitment to Woodstock Non-Profit Housing.
As an Oxford County Councillor he is a member of the Woodstock Hospital Board of Trust and has served the County Bio-Solids Committee and the County Agriculture Committee. He chaired the Oxford Natural Heritage Study.
Michael’s business background includes Canadian Learning Company, a national educational audio-visual company he founded in 1978, and almost two decades in educational publishing. His work has taken him to the United States, Germany, and Australia.
All the while he remained involved in a number of community projects not the least of which was as the two-term chair of the Communities in Bloom team which took national honours. “CiB got under my skin is the only way to put it. It is one of the greatest community building assets we have.”
Mayor Harding and his wife Terry have one son David who graduated in 2007 from Woodstock Collegiate Institute and is today in fourth year business studies, attending university in Hamilton. Michael recently became a first time grandfather when his daughter Jennifer and her husband Eric gave birth to Isaac. They live and work in Toronto in banking.
Paul Hastie
Paul Hastie is the Executive Director of Homestarts Incorporated. Founded in 1976, and now employing 80 staff, Homestarts provides a range of services to Ontario co-op and non-profit housing providers and sector organizations. These include: management, capital repair, energy retrofit, development, organizational consulting and training. Homestarts is an active participant in many sector organizations and proud contributor to sector charities.
Paul started his career in community based housing in 1985, joining Homestarts in 1988 as a development and management consultant. A proponent of innovation and conservation, he coordinated development of the first Canadian housing cooperative built to the super-energy efficiency standards of the federal government’s R-2000 construction program. This project received both Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation and Co-operative Housing Federation of Canada awards. In 2008, he received Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation’ Outstanding Contribution to Co-operative Housing award.
Merv Hughes
Merv has been a Manager, Social Housing for the County of Norfolk since 2001. In this role, he monitors the administration of public, non-profit and affordable housing programs, and coordinates all the financial, human and physical resources of the Social Housing Division in conjunction with the strategic plan. He also coordinates the delivery of rent subsidy programs in Haldimand and Norfolk Counties, including the units of the Haldimand-Norfolk Housing Corporation. Merv was formerly the Housing Manager for the Wellington and Guelph Housing Authority.
Trevor Lester
Trevor Lester brings experience both managing non-profit housing and overseeing social housing program administration to his position on SHSC’s Board of Directors. Trevor is currently Manager of Non-Profit Properties for Bayshore Property Management Inc., which manages 14 non-profits in south-central Ontario with a total of more than 2,000 units. Previously, Trevor worked for a service manager, in the County of Simcoe. He was an Ontario Works Supervisor for 11 years before moving to work as Program Supervisor with the county’s social housing portfolio.
Trevor has worked closely with the Simcoe County Alliance to End Homelessness during the past 12 years and was appointed Chair of the Alliance in 2009.
Keiko Nakamura
Keiko is responsible for the second largest social housing company in North America with 58,000 social housing units, tenant and community services for more than 164,000 tenants in 2,500 buildings across 300 communities, and for managing $6 billion in assets. She is responsible for 1,400 multidisciplinary staff.
Keiko has extensive experience in the public sector. She joined Toronto Community Housing in 2005 as its first Chief Operating Officer and served as acting Chief Executive Officer from May 2009 to January 2010. Keiko served as Director, Facilities Services and as Director, Financial Administration with the City of Toronto from 2001 to 2005. Her experience also includes 10 years in the health care sector, namely the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and Addiction Research Foundation where she served in several progressive capacities including Administrative Director of Addiction Medicine and Concurrent Disorders and Director of Clinical Services.
Keiko has extensive public sector experience and in particular with large, complex, organizational mergers and restructuring efforts. Her commitment to building healthy communities stems from strong community engagement principles, building on individual and community assets and ensuring service culture is embedded in every form of planning and delivery of service. She brings strong skills in financial and program administration, organizational development, customer service administration, process reengineering, technology and research and strategic planning.
Keiko sits on the board of Toronto’s United Way, DiverseCity, Housing Services Incorporated, and Housing Connections. She is an active member on various steering and advisory groups, including the Mayor’s Panel on Community Safety.
Joyce Timpson
Joyce Timpson grew up in Toronto and studied sciences before switching to Social Work. After a two year backpacking world tour, she went in 1976 to work with the the Kenora District Childrens Aid Society in Sioux Lookout. A one year adventure became a career working with First Nations organizations in developing self governing mental health services. She returned to Southern Ontario to earn a Masters of Public Administration and a PhD in Social Work. Her interest lay in analyzing the relationships between the workings of government, history and outcomes in services to First Nations persons. She was a researcher/writer for the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, taught at Cambrian College in Sudbury, and served as Adjunct Professor of Social Work with Lakehead University until assuming a consulting practice in Sioux Lookout. Joyce has written eleven academic articles and spent six years on the Ontario Ministry of Health’s Health Professions Regulatory Advisory Council, chairing the committee on the regulation of Naturopathy and Traditional Chinese Medicine. Joyce was elected to the council of the Municipaity of Sioux Lookout in 2006 and is active with the Kenora District Services Board and the Environment Committee. She enjoys cooking, entertaining, swimming and cross country skiing.
Adelina Urbanski
As Commissioner of Community and Health Services for The Regional Municipality of York, Adelina manages a budget of $363 million and a staff of 1,500 employees. In addition to her responsibilities as Commissioner, Adelina is also General Manager for York Region’s Housing corporation, Housing York Inc. Prior to joining York Region, Adelina worked many years at Halton Region where among other things she directed the first corporate housing strategy and negotiated the commitment of an accompanying financial plan to set a long term direction and goal for Halton. Adelina has a Chartered Director Designation from the Director’s College (a partnership from the DeGroote School of Business and the Conference Board of Canada). She also sits on the Board of Directors for the Social Housing Services Corporation.
Dick Verrips
Dick retired from the position of Commissioner of Social Services for the County of Bruce in 2008. He held this position since 1990. In this role, he oversaw the overall management of Social Services including Social Housing, Ontario Works, Child Care, Resource Centres and Long-Term Care. Dick was key in implementing an efficient and amalgamated social housing service. He has worked for the County of Bruce for over 30 years and provides strategic advice on matters of social policy and the well-being of Bruce County residents. He is still currently on contract with the County of Bruce. Dick is also Chair of the Home and Community Support Services for Grey Bruce.