with Ricardo Tranjan, Flo Schade, and Murray Martin
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?
Thursday, December 12, 5:00 PM PST / 8:00 PM EST
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In the previous May webcast panelists interrogated the underlying causes and class dynamics fueling housing unaffordability in Canada. Watch that webcast HERE.
This second presentation will examine real solutions by analyzing what we can do and what we must demand to radically shift housing from a speculative commodity to an essential human need.
Join us for educational presentations and a lively Q&A!
Speakers
Flo Schade lives in northern BC with her family in a place called Terrace, the traditional territory of the Simshian peoples. She holds a Masters degree in Religion & Science from the University of Edinburgh, and now works as a Poverty Law Advocate at a social services society. She is a founding organizer of the Skeena Local Action Network and is a Central Committee member of Socialist Action Canada.
Ricardo Tranjan, PhD, is a political economist and senior researcher with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. He is the author of two books: a scholarly analysis of Participatory Democracy in Brazil (2015) and the national bestseller The Tenant Class (2023). A frequent media commentator in English and French, he lives in Ottawa.
Murray Martin spent 20 years working as a telecommunications tech. Deteriorating work conditions helped him develop an interest in socialism and labour. After a protracted labour dispute he studied political economy and sociology at SFU, working as a Teaching Assistant and Researcher. Murray was a leader in the push-back against Burnaby’s thousands of demo-victions, where a ‘progressive’ council evicted thousands of working class tenants so developers could build million dollar condos and push marginalized tenants to unaffordable homes or to the street.
Join the fight for social, economical and political justice. Help us uncover the Capitalist machinations at the heart of the ‘crisis’.