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Sarah Cooper is an Assistant Professor in the Department of City Planning at the University of Manitoba's Faculty of Architecture. Her work focuses on housing policy, community development, and planning in colonial contexts. She holds a Ph.D. in Urban Planning and Policy from the University of Illinois, Chicago, an M.C.P. from the University of Manitoba, and a B.E.S. in Environmental Studies from York University.
Professional affiliations include the Canadian Institute of Planners and Manitoba Professional Planners Institute. Her research examines privatization impacts on social programs, particularly low-income housing in Canada. Key projects include analyzing expiring social housing funding agreements and non-profit housing provider governance.
Publications span topics like Indigenous planning capacities, neoliberal housing transformations, and emergency planning in urban marginalized communities. She has collaborated with organizations such as the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and Manitoba Non-Profit Housing Association on policy analysis and community-based research initiatives.
Research trends in her articles emphasize systemic critiques of housing policy, decolonizing planning practices, and community resilience strategies. Her work bridges academic analysis with actionable policy recommendations to address housing inequities and institutional challenges in rapidly changing urban environments.