This series offers a deep dive into Canada’s housing system, one that is recognized as being in a state of crisis for a size-able minority of the population. The six sessions will introduce key terms, concepts and trends, and explore the historical basis for the housing situations in which Canadian households, both renters and homeowners, find themselves today. It will also examine the many actors and institutions that contribute to how housing is produced and accessed and how they have contributed to the question of who gets what kind of housing under what circumstances. Finally, the series will explore arguments and initiatives about ways forward to produce a housing system less prone to crises and spiralling inequality.

Dates: Thursdays, March 21 – April 25, 2024.

Time: 1:30-3:30pm

Location: In-Person, Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre.

Registered participants will receive an email from the LLeaP team, sharing the room number and parking instructions prior to the first day of this series.

Topics:

  • Week 1: Numbers, Terms, Concepts.
  • Week 2: Housing Policies and Outcomes, 1950s to 1992.
  • Week 3: Housing Policies and Outcomes, 1993 and beyond.
  • Week 4: Producing and Consuming Housing – What is Involved and Who Decides.
  • Week 5: Housing as a Social Determinant of Health.
  • Week 6: Paths Forwards – Innovations and Choices

About the Lecturer: Dr. Klodawsky is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at Carleton University. Her areas of expertise include: public policy and social inclusion/exclusion in cities, especially in relation to housing, and feminist perspectives on cities, on community organizing, on housing and on homelessness. Her work utilizes both quantitative and qualitative methods within a collaborative, community-based framework. From June 2012-16, she was the Principal Investigator of a SSHRC funded project titled “Intersectionality in Practice: Feminist Theory and Urban Governance”, and she also led a previous SSHRC funded study (May 2008-12), titled “Learning Through Difference”. She was a founding member of and Academic Advisor to City for All Women Initiative until 2017 and was Secretary of the Board of Women and Cities International between 2006 and 2017. In the past, she also served as Chair of the Research and Evaluation Committee of the Alliance to End Homelessness in Ottawa and as President and Vice-President of Multifaith Housing Initiative (between 2003 and 2014). Since retiring, she has been an active Board member of Multifaith Housing Initiative (until March 2023) and remains a volunteer with the organization.

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