Our Benefactors
World Housing’s Benefactors not only provide the social impact investment required to support our operations financially, but inspire us and advise us through a broad range of global perspectives and an incredible depth of experience.
Their generous funding and ongoing support allow us to commit 100% of public donations to fund and build homes for families living without safe shelter.
Why We're Here
World Housing believes that homes are the key turning point where the momentum of community begins to have effects that radiate beyond individuals and into entire families, villages, cities, and countries. Our vision includes building homes and communities in developing countries, with an expanded commitment to also fund safe, attainable and sustainable housing projects in North America.
Together with our community of donors and our building partners, World Housing provides housing to the world's most vulnerable people and allows families to thrive. Children who grow up in safe, stable homes have greater freedom to pursue education, and raise the standard of living for themselves, their families, and future generations to come.
World Housing homes cause a ripple effect. And those ripples change lives.
Board of Directors
World Housing’s Board of Directors are actively involved in the ongoing development of our strategies and provide an incredible level of global experience to help guide our scope and direction.
World Housing's Advisory Board
Our Advisors come from a variety of industry backgrounds, and are critical to our strategic development, providing the broad expertise needed to drive World Housing's growth.
Jake Fry
Jake, Founder of Smallworks, will join the World Housing advisory board to develop new and innovative approaches to building homes and communities for vulnerable families around the world.
Mac Voisin
World Housing is honoured to have Mac as part of the leadership team. Mac is actively involved as a Benefactor, and on our Advisory Board. He passionately helps steer the growth of World Housing in our mission to combat global homelessness.
Lianne McOuat
Lianne McOuat has worked with some of the top brands in Canada to develop business plans and highly successful brand strategies. Her varied experience as a business leader and philanthropist will help World Housing to develop new partnerships through her broad reach in the industry.
Faisal Susiwala
Faisal Susiwala, North America's #1 Remax Realtor, joins the Advisory Board to lend his expertise in real estate development as a visionary to push the growth of World Housing projects forward. He will be leading the important Agents of Change initiative for World Housing across our donor base and throughout the world.
Brit Hari
Brit Hari joins the Advisory Board to lend her marketing and communications knowledge within the real estate industry to assist in developing marketing strategies to engage more Developers and Realtors in World Housing's work.
Alex Filipuk
Alex, Founder of Ideal Siding, joins the World Housing advisory board to provide an entrepreneurial spirit and share his proficiency in leading franchise structures. His insights into the need for affordable housing are shared in his book “The 22-Year Vacation, or the New Home Order”.
John Robinson
John Robinson’s expertise in scaling up businesses and organizations through mergers and acquisitions will be supporting the future growth of World Housing across the globe.
Zach Moe
Zach serves as the Director of National Sales at Chandos Construction out of the Calgary office. He oversees the proposal coordination team and marketing department, integrating marketing efforts with the company’s business development teams across Canada.
World Housing Team
World Housing is a hybrid organization of full and part-time workers and volunteers. Every member of our team is socially focused, and driven to make a positive social change in the world believing that everyone deserves a home.
World Housing Co-Founders
In the early years of our development, two individuals invented and invested in World Housing. Thanks to their generosity and belief in the mission World Housing launched as a global organization combatting homelessness around the world.
World Housing co-founder Peter Dupuis had already earned a worldwide reputation as a real estate entrepreneur and marketer when a chance meeting in 2009 with TOMS Shoes’ founder Blake Mycoskie took his life in a radically different direction. Inspired by Blake’s example and business model,
Peter spent three years in a graduate program studying social entrepreneurship, modern philanthropy, slum housing and landfill communities. His work culminated in a successfully defended Masters thesis: “World Housing: A Blueprint for Creating Third World Bottom of the Pyramid Housing Supply Through a First World One-for-One Real Estate Gifting Model.” In 2013, Peter and his business partner of 32 years, Sid Landolt, co-founded World Housing.
Pete continues to inspire and lead the World Housing Vision: A Home for Everyone.
About Sid Landolt, President, New Generation Properties
Since joining the real estate industry at 19 years old, Sid has been actively leading real estate brokerage companies for over forty years. In 2013, in partnership with Pete Dupuis in S&P Real Estate, Sid was instrumental in launching World Housing, investing both his time and providing financial support.
Recently Sid started a new chapter in his career with the launch of New Generation Properties Inc., a new kind of company in the real estate development industry, bringing co-investment capital and market expertise to form unique real estate partnerships.
Sid continues to be passionate about using his extensive knowledge and experience in the real estate industry to teach and mentor and create donor opportunities for World Housing.
Photo: House Party 2020 - Pete Dupuis (left); Sid Landolt (right)
In 2013 when World Housing began, these were the original World Housing social impact investors who came on board to support the genesis of our work. At that time, their contributions were instrumental in launching our vision and we are forever thankful for their belief in World Housing.
Rob Ford
President, Kal Tire
Harry Wang
Philanthropist
Hal Divine
Entrepreneur, whose mentorship has played a guiding role in World Housing since the very inception of the idea. To honour Hal, Founder Pete Dupuis dedicated his Master’s thesis, where the idea for World Housing was born and cultivated, in his honour.
Tony Allard
President, Hearthstone and Sentient Investments
Hunter Milborne
CEO, Milborne Real Estate
Laura Rowse
President, Cheeky’s Cannabis