Standing up for a place to stay

Standing up for a place to stay: Movements confront the housing crisis and false solutions. A community radio and television broadcast at Brique par brique

Six Montreal organizers gathered at Brique par Brique, a community organization, to discuss the housing crisis in Montreal, the false solutions often proposed, and share the work they are doing at a local level.

The conversation is facilitated by community organizer and artist Stefan Christoff.

The event was live-streamed on Free City Radio and broadcasted on CKUT 90.3FM (listen to the panel discussion).

Here is the video of the panel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVallgPa5ms

Panelists include:  

• Faiz Abhuani, director of Brique par brique
• Hubert Gendron-Blais, founder of the collective Réverbérations d’une crise en cours : une enquête sonore sur le logement à Montréal project, and artist
• Amy Darwish, community organizer at Comité d'Action de Parc-Extension (C.A.P.E)
• Nathan McDonnell, community activist with the Comité des citoyen.ne.s de Milton Parc Citizens' Committee. In the 70s, the CCMP which saved a neighbourhood from destruction and created a complex of 22 housing cooperatives and nonprofits on a community land trust.
• Gaurav Sharma, community organizer at The Immigrant Workers Centre focused on working class communities in Parc Extension.
• Dru Oja Jay, of Community-University Television (CUTV) and Publisher of The Breach
  

Throughout the last few years, Montreal has seen its housing and rental market become hyper-commodified. Affordable and social housing budgets have suffered severe cuts. Panelists at the discussion talk about how they have been dealing with these roadblocks, and how these issues are impacting vulnerable populations in the city.

This broadcast was a collaboration between Alternatives, Brique par brique, CKUT Radio, Community-University Television (CUTV), SEIZE, The Social Justice Centre at Concordia University and Réverbérations d'une crise: une enquête sonore sur le logement à Montréal.