In Person Workshop: How to Start a Tenants' Association
IN PERSON SDC WORKSHOP: How to start a tenants' association with Meg Walker and Lynn Intini!
Thursday, April 23rd
6:30-8pm
St. John the Evangelist Church Basement
Food Provided
Registration required: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/in-person-workshop-how-to-start-a-tenants-association-tickets-1986033213805
This session is for tenants who are thinking about organizing in their buildings or communities—and for anyone wanting to better understand how tenant associations are formed, sustained, and used to resist displacement. Join us for a practical, grounded workshop led by local organizers:
Meg Walker has been organizing in Waterloo Region for over a decade around housing and climate justice. She works with the Social Development Centre’s Eviction Prevention Team alongside tenants resisting mass evictions and displacement.
Lynn Intini brings extensive experience supporting tenant organizing and community-led advocacy efforts, with a focus on building collective capacity.
Together, they will walk through: how tenant associations get started; what it takes to organize with neighbours; common challenges and how to navigate them; strategies for building collective power in the face of displacement.
This is a participatory session so please come with questions, experiences, and a willingness to think together about what organizing can look like where you are. We’ll end with time to connect informally with others over light refreshments. We’re grateful to be building these conversations together. As always, please invite like-minded relations to join us!
All events are supported by the University of Waterloo Faculty of Health EDI-AR Seed Fund.