Community reinvestment and the challenges of scaling up the social economy

This presentation to the 2007 CIRIEC International Research Conference provided an overview of results from initial literature reviews conducted on behalf of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA). The presentation examined the issue of community re-investment from a social economy perspective, drawing on literature reviews on the role of the social economy in affordable housing, human services, natural resources, infrastructure and/ evaluationBC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA) ; Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) ; Centre for Sustainable Community Development, Simon Fraser University (CSCD