This strategic framework was co-created with the Balanced Supply of Housing (BSH) Community-University collaboration.

The starting place was a policy framework originally developed by Eric Swanson (now of Third Space Planning), during his tenure as ED for Generation Squeeze. The initial framework was itself based on several years of housing research, advocacy, and multi-stakeholder dialogues led at Generation Squeeze. This starting framework combined a simple summary diagram with explanatory text.

Through a series of twenty in-depth interviews conducted in 2020 with members and partners in the BSH collaboration, Eric and the Gen Squeeze team gathered feedback and insights that were used to improve and upgrade the starting framework.

The idea was not to create a perfect framework that enjoys 100% consensus, but to develop an increasingly strong “living” product that does a reasonable job of uniting different perspectives and areas of focus. The intention is to make regular improvements to the framework over time, incorporating more and more perspectives, and new information. It is anticipated the policy framework will be revisited annually
as part of the collaboration's team-building activities, and as a strategy to synthesize findings from the various research projects funded by the collaboration.