Creating The Affordable City: Housing, Density, and Urban Belonging
About this Event
As cities grow increasingly expensive, artists, young people, and marginalized communities are often the first to be displaced from the places they helped make vibrant. Questions around affordability are no longer simply economic, they are cultural, emotional, and existential.
This panel explores the future of affordability in Calgary through the lenses of housing, density, infrastructure, innovation, and public life. How do we create cities that remain livable for artists, cultural workers, and emerging communities? What kinds of neighbourhoods encourage connection rather than isolation? And how might Calgary avoid reproducing the displacement cycles seen in larger global cities?
SPEAKERS
ANDREW SEDOR (City of Calgary)
CHRIS BELL (Norfolk Housing Association)
MIKE MELDRUM (Calgary Affordable Housing Foundation)
DR. TERESA GOLDSTEIN (University of Calgary)
MODERATOR
EMAN SAFADI (BUMP, FOREIGNERZ)
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BUMP Festival returns August 3–17, 2026, transforming Calgary through murals, sculpture, music, placemaking, and artistic dialogue. Running August 13–15, the BUMP Urban Art Conference is the festival's ideas hub—a three-day gathering of artists, thinkers, musicians, and cultural leaders exploring the forces shaping public art and the cities we share. Learn more at yycbump.ca and follow @yycbump on Instagram.
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