May 1, 2024 | Socialist Action
Canada’s housing crisis is reaching unprecedented levels with homelessness, poverty, housing precarity all on the rise through recent years. The media approach the topic with a detached passivity of observing an economic phenomenon while the political class make much fanfare over inadequate petty market reforms. The question for political economists remains: who is benefitting from this housing market, how is it sustained, and what class dynamics lie at the core this assault on a basic need of humanity?
On Thursday May 9th we will hear from 3 panelists exploring the topic of the Political Economy of the Canadian Housing Crisis:
- Ricardo Tranjan, Senior Researcher at the Toronto Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and author of “The Tenant Class” (2023)
- Florencia Schade, leading Socialist Action member and Poverty Law/Housing Advocate in northern British Columbia
- Sean Orr, 2022 municipal candidate for Vote Socialist Vancouver, encampments and unhoused advocate/activist
Join us for a Q&A discussion exploring this important topic on Thursday May 9th and help us uncover the Capitalist machinations at the heart of the ‘crisis’.
SA WEBCAST Thurs MAY 9 @ 4p PT / 7p ET