Sep 5, 2019
Manitoba election highlights need for provincial housing strategy
Kirsten Bernas
Sarah Cooper
The Manitoba election is an opportunity to hold the province to account, and to demand that low-cost housing be given the support it needs.
housing
Aug 15, 2019
Fighting homelessness with disaster relief housing
Cathy Crowe
In this excerpt from her new memoir, Cathy Crowe recounts how, in the late 1990s, she and fellow Toronto housing activists fought homelessness by erecting prefabricated housing on undeveloped land.
Jul 31, 2019
New film 'Push' explores the housing crisis and capitalism run amok
face2face
Leilani Farha and Fredrik Gertten explore gentrification and the right to housing in today's Face2Face podcast with David Peck.
Jul 25, 2019
In Canada's housing crisis, distribution of living space a growing issue
Should we impose limits on the use of space in publicly funded housing so that resources are used for the betterment of the most people possible?
Jun 20, 2019
Fighting red tape to get housed in Toronto
John Clapp
Clapp details his recent experience of homelessness and the four catch-22s that make it nearly impossible to find affordable housing in the country's most expensive city.
Jun 19, 2019
'Clean Hands' -- a film about family life and Central America
face2face
Michael Dominic talks about the ethics of cinéma vérité filmmaking, different versions of truth, poverty and white western development, empathy, curiosity and why the little things matter.
Apr 24, 2019
Building tenant power to fight displacement in Ottawa
Herongate ACORN Tenant Leaders
When a corporate landlord served tenants of the Herongate community in Ottawa with eviction notices, the community began organizing to fight displacement and corporate gentrification.
Mar 29, 2019
'Push' unpacks the core culprit behind global housing crisis
A new documentary crisscrosses the globe with UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing Leilani Farha to explore the forces driving the global housing crisis.
Mar 21, 2019
Morneau, Tory promote business-friendly solutions to housing crisis
Rosemary Frei
John Tory's eye, like Bill Morneau's, appears to be squarely on boosting the share of the private sector in the benefits from the escalating building boom.
Feb 21, 2019
When Habitat 76 shone a spotlight on housing issues in Vancouver
Jean Walton
This excerpt from Jean Walton's new book "Mudflat Dreaming" chronicles how housing activists in 1970s Vancouver responded to the first UN Conference on Human Settlements.
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