Houssam Elokda
Happy City housing and land use policy planner
Houssam is a housing and land use policy planner. He leads Happy City’s work in supporting the development of community masterplans and housing projects. He brings an evidence-based approach that helps government clients maximize urban health and wellbeing.
Houssam is part of the CMHC college of experts on housing and is an expert reviewer for CMHC grants. He brings to his planning and policy work a background in real estate development and construction. He also helped deliver multi-year research projects investigating how the design and programming of housing influences wellbeing.