Events

Join us for donuts, coffee, and critical conversation as we prepare for The Tenant Class author Ricardo Tranjan’s March 3 in-person visit with the Lab (see details below). Through selected readings, reflection, and discussion, we’ll explore key ideas from The Tenant Class, including narratives, class struggle, housing as a political issue, and the history of tenant organizing in Canada. We’ll also generate questions for Tranjan and local organizers.

Registration Required: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/1983274656887

Join us for a virtual session with local tenant organizer Meg Walker to learn how Bill 60 weakens tenants’ rights and access to housing justice, affecting you, your neighbours, and the wider community. The session includes one hour of teaching followed by Q&A. 

Meg Walker has been organizing in Waterloo Region for 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.

Resources to explore: ACTO’s One Pager (attached) and Social Development Centre’s Resource Page 

Registration required: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/housing-justice-online-teach-in-bill-60-tenant-rights-with-meg-walker-tickets-1983276124276

Political economist Ricardo Tranjan will introduce the central argument of his book The Tenant Class, which reframes the so-called “housing crisis” as a site of class struggle between tenants and landlords. Meg Walker, a local tenant organizer with the Social Development Centre, will then guide discussion using questions gathered through her organizing work, followed by audience Q&A. Afterward, we’ll continue upstairs in the lounge for food, conversation, and relationship-building.

Registration Required: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/housing-justice-and-tenant-rights-with-ricardo-tranjan-and-meg-walker-tickets-1983278680923

About the book:
The Tenant Class places tenants and landlords on opposite sides of a class divide and challenges dominant myths about renters, affordability, and housing markets. Drawing on Canada’s history of collective action, Tranjan argues that organized tenants have the power to fight for decent homes and fair rent.

Supported by the University of Waterloo Faculty of Health EDI-AR Seed Fund and the Faculty of Health Teaching Fellows.