Like all communities across Canada, Edmonton has a housing problem. And despite many best efforts, this crisis only continues to worsen. How can we best understand and fix this issue of (in)access to adequate housing? The key to understanding and effectively addressing our housing crisis is to take a human rights approach (UNHRC 2019). One […]
Category: The Pivot
The Financialization of Housing: The Alberta Advantage
Why does Edmonton seem to be a magnet for financialized primary or multi-family rental housing?*Note: blog was updated June 28, 2023 Like all communities across Canada, Edmonton has a housing problem. And despite many best efforts, this crisis only continues to worsen. How can we best understand and fix this issue of (in)access to adequate […]
The Financialization of Housing: The role of transparency
Without knowing who actually owns our housing, how can we understand what is really going on? And how can we hold owners and landlords accountable to tenants? Find out why it is so hard to trace ownership, and how this impacts our housing crisis. Like all communities across Canada, Edmonton has a housing problem. And despite many […]
The Financialization of Housing: What types exist?
To unpack and make sense of our housing crisis in Edmonton, learn about 8 ways housing is financialized with local examples. Which include: Mortgages; Single-Family Rentals; Multi-Family Rentals; Seniors’ Housing; Social Housing; Student Housing; Short-Term Rentals; & Mobile Home Communities (August 2022). Like all communities across Canada, Edmonton has a housing problem. And despite many […]
The Financialization of Housing: What Is It?
How can we understand the financialization of housing? What does it mean? And can this help us make sense of our current housing crisis? Like all communities across Canada, Edmonton has a housing problem. And despite many best efforts, this crisis only continues to worsen. How can we best understand and fix this issue of […]
Pivot Progress Report & Upcoming Final Pivot Event
Making the Pivot: Designing Participatory Action Research for Housing Justice in Edmonton, Alberta BackgroundLike water, food, education and healthcare, adequate housing is essential to human dignity and wellbeing and is therefore a human right. This was recognized nearly 75 years ago in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which states, in Article 25, that: Everyone […]
Takeaways from Making the Pivot Part 1: Taking action to secure the right to adequate housing in Edmonton
This first virtual workshop was intended to develop some shared understanding of key concepts (equity, inclusion, and justice), establish guidelines for brave spaces in the conversations going forward, and reflect on our own social positions and relative access and power. Key Concepts Equality vs. Equity Image Source:https://www.rwjf.org/en/library/infographics/visualizing-health-equity.html Equity ensures that everyone has what they need […]
Pivot Information Session
On October 14 the AHSL held an information and Q&A session about the upcoming Pivot initiative on Zoom. This was recorded, and can be viewed here: We appreciate all of the thoughtful questions from our attendees, and will be updating this blog entry shortly with some additional information in response. If you were unable to […]
Pivot Invitation
We are excited to begin our (pilot) Pivot process and are seeking a diverse group of 40 – 60 individuals to join us. We are pleased to invite… First Voice Advocates / Individuals with Lived Experience aiming for at least 50% of all participants Academics Professors, Postdoctoral Researchers, PhD Candidates/Students, Masters Students, Undergraduate Students & […]
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