Conference

Conference

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

  1. Asset-based community development & Design Thinking, with Gary Newman
  2. Creative community development and campaign tools for advocacy, with Salomeh Ahmadi from Humber College
  3. Case Studies and solutions to housing, with Carly Bowie from LAHAAG
  4. To be announced

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

Spoken Word Poet Keosha Love

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