Keep Your Family Together—Including Your Furry Friends
Discover how pet-friendly housing is changing lives in Calgary. Learn from city leaders and animal welfare experts how expanding rental options benefits everyone—and find out what resources can help you navigate pet-friendly housing today.
Understand the real impact of housing barriers on pet owners and the thousands of animals surrendered to shelters each year when families can't find suitable rentals.
Learn how welcoming pets can actually benefit landlords through longer tenancies, reduced vacancy rates, and more reliable tenants—while giving pet owners the dignity of keeping their families intact.
Get actionable insights and resources to support pet-friendly rental policies, overcome common landlord concerns, and help close Calgary's pet-friendly housing gap.
A Conversation That Could Change Everything
Over half of Calgarians own a pet, but only 10% of low-cost rentals allow them. That's a crisis hiding in plain sight. In this exclusive episode, The City of Calgary's Chief Housing Officer Reid Hendry and Carrie Fritz, Executive Director at Calgary Humane Society, sit down to tackle the tough questions: What's really driving this housing gap? How can we build more pet-friendly options? And what does it take to help families stay together? This isn't just about housing policy—it's about keeping people and their pets connected, reducing preventable animal surrenders, and building stronger communities where everyone belongs. Whether you're a landlord, a pet owner searching for a home, a housing advocate, or someone who cares about animal welfare, this conversation offers real answers and practical solutions you can use right now.