Housing Research
May 3-5, 2023. Thank you to everyone who attended! Tenants, community workers, and allies in South Etobicoke. Please stay in touch via newsletter or social media.
The conference was launched and we greatly appreciate the participants and community who helped to make it a success!
From 6-8:30pm
Join us, at Humber College Lakeshore Campus, for an evening of music, interactive activities, networking and hearing an update about housing affordability and next steps. We will have agencies tabling and answering your questions about affordable housing.
From 8 am – 4pm
Breakfast & live music
9am Keynote with TEDX Speaker Asante Haughton
A Jamaican-born Toronto-based human rights & mental health advocate. Co-founder of Reach Out Response Network.
Select 1 of 4 workshops
Lunch
Hackathon model of working in groups, as a sprint, on proposed pitches and solutions to housing affordability challenges. (Pitches for the prototype of the solution will happen on Sunday.)
Challenges so far:
Community Benefit Agreements with TCBN & CBASE
Students & Seniors
Co-operative Housing
More to come!
Next Steps
From 8 am – 2pm
8am Breakfast
9am Fireside panel
“Effective Grassroots Organizing & Housing Solutions,” moderated by Salomeh Ahmadi
Panelists:
Chiara Padovani, of https://www.tenantunion.ca/about |
Dave Bush of https://incomesecurity.org/about/staff/ |
Alix Aylen, Program Lead of https://infrastructureinstitute.ca/alix-aylen/ |
Re-group with the hackathon team, from Saturday, to refine the idea, before pitching
Lunch
Pitches & Q&A
Closing
Next Steps