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The Hub is a community that lives to see young people connect with the just, inclusive, and liberating love of Christ. We currently have 3 podcasts: Winter is Coming is a podcast about housing justice in Kitchener Waterloo and beyond. We chat with local community members and leaders about how we confront and respond to the housing crisis we’re living through. The Hubcast features conversations with members of our community exploring occasions where we were wrong or when we changed our mind in life and faith. The Hub @ Trinity Podcast features conversations with friends from Trinity United Church on how they’re living out the call of discipleship in the 21st century.
Episodes
Tuesday Mar 26, 2024
Tuesday Mar 26, 2024
Why have synthetic drugs changed housing supports forever?
In part 2 of our conversation with House of Friendship Executive Director John Neufeld, Adam and John discuss the historic change that synthetic drugs have had on combatting poverty and homelessness. John also shares his outlook for 2024 and the challenges of reminding legislators that although Winter is Coming, housing injustice does not go on break for the summer.
Follow House of Friendship's work:
https://houseoffriendship.org/about-us/
Get connected with SHAG our advocacy project:
https://www.trinityunitedkw.ca/shag
Follow The Hub's work:
https://linktr.ee/Thehubcommunity
www.instagram.com/hubstagrams
www.facebook.com/hubworship
https://www.trinityunitedkw.ca/about-the-hub
Tuesday Mar 19, 2024
Tuesday Mar 19, 2024
How can youth groups and young people lead to change?
This week Adam is joined for part 1 of our conversation with House of Friendship Executive Director John Neufeld. John shares the role that youth groups and mentorship played in developing his passion for housing justice, poverty reduction, and creating spaces of belonging. John graciously points the spotlight back onto The Hub and Trinity Church’s work to highlight the key role investing in young people plays in creating a future where no one is left out in the cold, and what “servant leadership” meant to him and can mean for us today.
Follow House of Friendship's work:
https://houseoffriendship.org/about-us/
Get connected with SHAG our advocacy project:
https://www.trinityunitedkw.ca/shag
Follow The Hub's work:
https://linktr.ee/Thehubcommunity
www.instagram.com/hubstagrams
www.facebook.com/hubworship
https://www.trinityunitedkw.ca/about-the-hub
Tuesday Feb 20, 2024
Tuesday Feb 20, 2024
How do we create permanently affordable public housing again?
We’re joined once again this week by housing systems engineer Kirsten Wright as we continue to zoom out and look at housing on a systemic level. Adam and Kirsten discuss the need for legislators, cities, and provinces to embrace experimentation when it comes to finding solutions for housing. We also confront the question of public housing, which has largely been abandoned by our civic leaders for decades. To get involved in some great housing advocacy groups check out the links below:
For info on how to get connected with our companion project, the "Affordable Housing Advocacy Group" e-mail us at adam@hubcommunity.ca
Subscribe to keep up with our show. New episodes every Tuesday through March
Check out the trailer for "SAFE" a documentary by John Butler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqgQ_t1CVUI
To get involved with affordable housing volunteering:
https://volunteerwr.ca
https://www.unionsd.coop
https://buildnowwr.ca
Follow our work:
https://linktr.ee/Thehubcommunity
www.instagram.com/hubstagrams
www.facebook.com/hubworship
https://www.trinityunitedkw.ca/about-the-hub
Tuesday Feb 13, 2024
Tuesday Feb 13, 2024
How do Amazon & Uber undermine affordable housing?
We’re joined this week by housing systems engineer Kirsten Wright as zoom out and look at housing on a systemic level. Adam and Kirsten discuss the emergence of the “Sharing Economy” and how a more interdependent society can transform housing for the better. We also look at the underside of this development, and how large corporations exploit a sharing economy to create a deeper divide in wealth and housing.
Subscribe to keep up with our show. New episodes every Tuesday through March
For info on how to get connected with our companion project, the "Affordable Housing Advocacy Group" e-mail us at adam@hubcommunity.ca
Check out the trailer for "SAFE" a documentary by John Butler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqgQ_t1CVUI
To get involved with affordable housing volunteering:
https://volunteerwr.ca
https://www.unionsd.coop
https://buildnowwr.ca
Follow our work:
https://linktr.ee/Thehubcommunity
www.instagram.com/hubstagrams
www.facebook.com/hubworship
https://www.trinityunitedkw.ca/about-the-hub
Tuesday Feb 06, 2024
Tuesday Feb 06, 2024
Can Developers Build Cheaper Housing?
This week we're joined for the second part of our 2-part conversation with Dan Driedger of Beyond Housing, as we get deeper into how Beyond Housing manages to stay financially sustainable while also building affordable housing. We also chat about what it means to create community fabric, and the stories of success Dan has seen amidst the challenges of the current state of housing.
Follow Beyond Housing's Work:
https://beyondhousing.ca/
Tuesday Jan 30, 2024
Tuesday Jan 30, 2024
Who are the unseen victims of the housing crisis?
On this week's episode, we begin part one of a two-part conversation with Dan Driedger the director of Beyond Housing (formerly called Menno Homes). We hear how and why he went from a successful career in the for-profit industrial sector to a full-time role working for an Affordable Housing non-profit. Adam and Dan discuss Beyond Housing's work supporting the unseen victims of the housing crisis.
Follow Beyond Housing's Work:
https://beyondhousing.ca/
Follow our work:
https://linktr.ee/Thehubcommunity
www.instagram.com/hubstagrams
www.facebook.com/hubworship
https://www.trinityunitedkw.ca/about-the-hub
Tuesday Jan 23, 2024
Tuesday Jan 23, 2024
Can Politicians change housing overnight?
To open Season 2 of our podcast, we sat down for an in-person interview with Kitchener Centre MP Mike Morrice to find out. Mike and Adam discuss what the public needs from politicians for tangible progress in affordable housing, and how the public can press politicians to act now for housing justice for all. We also chat about the ‘legislated poverty’ that holds many of our neighbours, particularly those with disabilities, trapped below the poverty line, and how the system isn’t broken: it was built this way.
Follow Mike's work:
https://mikemorricemp.ca/
https://www.instagram.com/morricemike/
Follow our work:
https://linktr.ee/Thehubcommunity
www.instagram.com/hubstagrams
https://www.trinityunitedkw.ca/about-the-hub
Tuesday Jan 16, 2024
Tuesday Jan 16, 2024
When I was hungry did you feed me? When I was thirsty, did you gave me drink? When I had no place to stay, did you shelter me?
It’s these words of Jesus that inspired our affordable housing podcast “Winter is Coming” With winter returning so is our podcast where, in Season 2, we continue to ask how we go from housing crisis to housing justice? We'll hear from frontline workers, developers, political leaders and affordable housing experts on where we go from here to make housing truly enshrined as a human right.
This season we’ll be hearing not only what is NOT working with our system of housing, we’ll be hearing solutions. Join us every Tuesday for the next few weeks as we learn how to take action and go from housing crisis to housing justice. And for info on how to get connected with our companion project, the "Affordable Housing Advocacy Group" e-mail us at adam@hubcommunity.ca
Follow our work:
www.instagram.com/hubstagrams
www.facebook.com/hubworship
https://www.trinityunitedkw.ca/about-the-hub
Check out the trailer for "SAFE" a documentary by John Butler (Trailer audio used with permission):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqgQ_t1CVUI
Tuesday Mar 14, 2023
Tuesday Mar 14, 2023
In our final episode of Season 1, Adam sits down with Leah Logan of Indwell. As Waterloo's regional manager for affordable housing developer Indwell, Leah has been working at many ends of the spectrum. From design and development to forging relationships with neighbourhoods and local residents, many of whom are not initially sold on the idea of affordable housing in their communities.
Leah talks about the Indwell approach to people-centered development, and how they work to overcome the "Not in my backyard" or NIMBY attitudes of many of our neighbours who are resistant to the idea of affordable housing situated where they live.
This episode marks the end of season 1 so follow us and hit subscribe to keep up with news about season 2 coming soon! And if you've been impacted by thie podcast or want to know how you can support this project please reach out to: hubleadership@gmail.com
Follow Indwell's work:
https://indwell.ca/
Check out the trailer for "SAFE" a documentary by John Butler (Trailer audio used with permission):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqgQ_t1CVUI
Find a viewing of "SAFE" near you:
https://indwell.ca/events/
Follow our work:
https://www.trinityunitedkw.ca
www.instagram.com/hubstagrams
www.facebook.com/hubworship
https://www.trinityunitedkw.ca/about-the-hub
Tuesday Mar 07, 2023
Tuesday Mar 07, 2023
This week we are joined by co-founder and director of The Working Centre Joe Mancini. For over 40 years Joe and his partner Stephanie and countless Working Centre staff and volunteers have been combatting poverty in Kitchener-Waterloo and carrying out "common work" as the antidote to the kind of bureaucracy that maintains poverty and housing injustice. Adam and Joe talk about how the pandemic has changed their work, and the success of a shelter that found innovation by having no rules.
Follow Joe and The Working Centre:
https://www.theworkingcentre.org
https://www.theworkingcentre.org/volunteer/83
Check out Joe and Stephanie's book: "Transition to Common Work"
https://catalogue.theworkingcentre.org/books/transition-common-work
Follow our work:
https://www.trinityunitedkw.ca
www.instagram.com/hubstagrams
www.facebook.com/hubworship
https://www.trinityunitedkw.ca/about-the-hub