We are constantly working on practical and impactful projects that promote good-quality housing, which is a right that is essential for thriving and healthy communities. 

SvN acknowledges how many communities are challenged by a lack of choice in housing size, tenure, price, location, and transportation options within our communities. These challenges are mitigated–and in fact, exacerbated–by factors that include land cost, population shifts and consumer choices, global capital markets, and planning policy. Although no single company, or industry, can address this alone, we, as architects, landscape architects, urban designers, and planners with deep expertise in the housing sector, have a crucial role to play.

SvN addresses these urgent challenges by designing housing that:

• Is connected to (and ideally nearby) life’s needs, such as jobs, grocery stores, daycare, social services, health care, and education;
• Supports the economic well-being of residents by maximizing options for location, tenure, type, and size;
• Enables social connections with neighbours and fosters a sense of community and “home;”
• Recognizes and strives to reflect the beauty inherent in the communities we practice;
• Responds to the current and future needs of residents and neighbourhoods.

We do this, foremost, by practicing with curiosity and consideration—for clients, residents, neighbourhoods, and their communities—and focusing on deepening positive synergies between housing and the economic, policy, environmental, capital, and social systems that influence it.