Date/Time
Date(s) - 23/11/2019
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
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Let’s meet up and talk about our housing concerns in person!
What do we want? What do we need? What needs to change? How do we make this happen?
This meeting is for folks who are interested in strengthening tenants’ rights in the city and the province through discussion, education, advocacy, organizing and direct action. It’s for people who are concerned about their own housing situation and the housing situation of others in their community.
We will likely touch on many of the reasons that housing has become unaffordable – we need a NS living wage, increases to Income Assistance rates, better employment laws in NS, need to eliminate capitalism etc – BUT the immediate focus of the group is on building community capacity around Tenants’ Rights and Housing in HRM and NS. This focus is a spectrum and will include the issue of Homelessness as it is experienced by people in our communities.
We have great potential here to work on mutual aid and building community power around these issues. When we work together we are stronger. We need you to be able to do this!
No cops. No landlords. No white supremacists.
Solidarity!
While we hold these discussions we must be mindful that we are all searching for housing in Mi’kma’ki, the traditional and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq people. The group is based in K’jipuktuk (Halifax). It’s important that while we all struggle with housing, we acknowledge how ongoing colonization efforts and white supremacy create further barriers to housing for BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Colour). We also acknowledge that “unlike the common colonialist definition of homelessness, Indigenous homelessness is not defined as lacking a structure of habitation; rather, it is more fully described and understood through a composite lens of Indigenous worldviews. These include: individuals, families and communities isolated from their relationships to land, water, place, family, kin, each other, animals, cultures, languages and identities. Importantly, Indigenous people experiencing these kinds of homelessness cannot culturally, spiritually, emotionally or physically reconnect with their Indigeneity or lost relationships.” (Jesse Thistle / Aboriginal Standing Committee on Housing and Homelessness, 2012)
