Jill Wade was born in 1942. She taught B.C. history in the university program at the Open Learning Agency in Burnaby and published Houses For All: The Struggle for Social Housing in Vancouver, 1919-1950 (UBC Press, 1994). For this book, Wade received an award from the City of Vancouver and the book's title became a rallying cry for a new generation of housing activists.

Raised in St. Boniface, Manitoba, she moved into a townhouse in a False Creek cooperative that was built due to amendments to the National Housing Act in 1973. She later bought a home in the Comox Valley with her husband. She died on December 17, 2020 at Vancouver General Hospital.

[BCBW 1992] "Local History" "Poverty"

Review of the author's work by BC Studies:
Houses for All: The Struggle for Social Housing in Vancouver, 1919-50