Home is Toronto?: Making Toronto's Neighbourhoods a Home for All

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Date: 
28 March, 2018

Home is Toronto?5:30pm to 9:00pm 
William Doo Auditorium
45 Wilcock's Street

The event will explore issues of neighbourhood gentrification, access to affordable housing, how cities change, who gets excluded when communities become less affordable and the effective and innovative ways that residents are organizing and forging change to keep Toronto's neighbourhoods a home for all. Contrasts and comparisons will be drawn between Brooklyn and Toronto.

Presented by: Canadian Harm Reduction Network, Centre for Community Partnerships, City Studies at UTSC, Hart House Social Justice Committee, United Way Toronto & York Region.

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Confirmed Panelists

Kaydeen Bankasingh - Co-Chair, Lawrence Heights Inter-Organizational Network (LHION)

Claudia Pedrero - Co-Chair, Parkdale Neighbourhood Land Trust 

Sean Gadon - Director, City of Toronto Affordable Housing Office

Sara Wolfe - Seventh Generation Midwives and Housing Coordinator, Baby Bundle Project

Keynote Speaker

Caitlin Cahill - Associate Professor, Social Science & Cultural Studies, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York


*From 8:30-9PM we are inviting organizations that are doing work around issues of addressing issues of affordable housing, reclaiming spaces, or working toward social justice to host a table with information and talk with attendees. If this sounds like something you or your organization would be interested in, please let us know by contacting Kristina at Kristina.minnella@utoronto.ca

This event is free and everyone is welcome.

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Host: 
Canadian Harm Reduction Network
Toronto  Ontario
Canada
Categories: 
Housing & Real Estate
Urban Development