Right to Housing Forum for National Housing Day
Communities across Canada will be marking National Housing Day with events to promote and raise awareness on the right to housing. Join the Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario ACTO - http://.acto.ca on November 21st for a National Housing Day Rally and Right to Housing Forum!
This event is FREE! To register online for the Forum:
https://acto-right2housing-forum2014.eventbrite.ca
If you need assistance with registration, call 416-597-5855 or toll free 1-866-245-4182
Rally and Forum Schedule:
12:00pm-1:00pm:
National Housing Day Rally at Yonge-Dundas Square: Housing is a human right!
See rally event page:
https://www.facebook.com/events/353871381446314
2:00pm-5:00pm:
Right to Housing Forum at Church of the Holy Trinity - moderated by: Angela Robertson, Executive Director, Central Toronto Community Health Centres.
This event is wheelchair accessible.
FORUM:
Panel 1 2:00-3:00: Is Housing First the solution to homelessness in Canada?
Some say yes. Some say maybe. And some say we must analyze Housing First through a gendered, racialized, rights based lens.
Professor Stephen Gaetz, York University/Canadian Homelessness Research Network and Professor Janet Mosher, Osgoode Hall Law School, will discuss and debate Housing First.
Panel 2 3:15-5:00: The Right to Housing in Canada
There are many ways to build the right to housing in Canada. The panelists will discuss their advocacy work in the courts and in their communities.
DJ Larkin, Pivot Legal Society Vancouver, is counsel on a case concerning access to safe shelter as a basic human right.
Phillip Dufresne, member of the Dream Team Toronto, will discuss how they filed a human rights complaint against five municipalities in Ontario for their discriminatory by-laws and won.
milie Joly, Community Organizer at FRAPRU Quebec-wide tenant organization, will talk about FRAPRUs successes in organizing tenants and how to build this nationwide.
Tracy Heffernan, Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario and co-counsel on the Right to Housing Charter challenge, will discuss next steps in the R2H litigation and campaign.
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