Our Team

Ed Starr

Partner

Ed Starr is one of the founding partners of SHS Consulting.

Ed possesses 45 years of professional experience in the housing and planning sectors. His experience includes five years as a Municipal Housing Policy Planner at the City of Toronto and Region of Peel, followed by 40 years in the consulting sector. Ed has directed the preparation of a wide range of municipal housing strategies in every corner of Canada, as well as policy studies on a host of important housing policy issues. His work has also included operational reviews of municipal housing corporations, feasibility studies for affordable housing projects, program evaluations and development of supportive housing programs for vulnerable populations. He has also successfully secured funding for more than 60 affordable housing projects developed by municipal, non-profit, cooperative and private sector housing providers and acted as project manager for these developments.

Several of these developments have won National Housing Awards of Excellence from CMHC. He also currently serves as coordinator of the Intentional Communities Consortium, a group of agencies devoted to increasing the supply of housing and developing leading edge concepts to provide housing and supports for persons with developmental disabilities.

Current work

Ed is working on housing policy projects in Vaughan, Brampton, Strathroy, Whitchurch-Stouffville, Norfolk, and Medicine Hat, among others. He is also guiding feasibility studies of several new affordable housing developments across the province as well as managing the development of new affordable housing projects with a variety of housing providers.

Education

Registered Professional Planner and Member of the Canadian Institute of Planners and the Ontario Professional Planners Institute

Masters of Environmental Studies (York University)

Masters of Business Administration (York University)

Connect

Mailing Address
77 Bloor Street West, Suite 600
Toronto, ON
M5S 1M2

Contact
905-763-7555
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Privacy Statement

Land Acknowledgement • At SHS we acknowledge the lands we are on are the traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat peoples and are now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples. We also acknowledge that the location of our office in Toronto is covered by Treaty 13. In our work, we strive to continually reflect on our relationship to the land we are currently inhabiting and how our role as actors in the housing system can support the reconciliation process.