(URS5) Resisting Eviction: Domicide and the Financialization of Rental Housing — Author Meets Critic

Centering tenant organizing in its investigation of gentrification, eviction and the financialization of rental housing, “Resisting Eviction: Domicide and the Financialization of Rental Housing” meticulously documents how real estate investment firms and government colluded to gentrify a racialized neighbourhood, and how tenants fought back. Author Andrew Crosby argues that racial discrimination, property relations and settler colonialism inform contemporary urban (re)development efforts and impacts affordable housing loss.  In this session, CSA members affiliated with the Urban Sociology and Housing research clusters will pose questions to the author in order to spurn a wider conversation on gentrification, eviction, resistance, and affordable housing in the Canadian context.

Tags: Communities, Equality and Inequality, Home and Housing, Social Movements

Organizers: Andrew Crosby, Carleton University, Katie MacDonald, Athabasca University