housed…[un]housed...[re]housed… 2025 Symposium

The housed…[un]housed…[re]housed… symposium will shine its academic light on the affordable housing and unhoused crisis in Toronto, Ontario. Given the recent pressing issues and experiences with affordability issues, refugee settlements, the COVID-19 pandemic, addiction, mental health, and the climate crisis, the symposium will probe and discuss precedents with a critical and multi-disciplinary lens. Hence, there is a need to revisit, question, and expand on the Fair Housing Act discourse, which prohibits discrimination and the Ontario Human Rights Commission that housing is a human right.

The symposium captures a range of topics and inquiries. It will examine the following Housing and Homelessness unifying themes: Local and Global Housing: Policies, Rights and Law, Rental Scams, Renovations and Evictions; Healthcare and Accessible Housing; Pedagogy and Practice: Civic Engagement and Pro Bono Work, Social Work, Social Medicine, and Social Suffering.

You are invited to listen to presenters and see exhibitions and films from Ontario, Quebec, United Kingdom, and the United States.

This event is supported in part by funding the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and The Office of the President, Toronto Metropolitan University, The Creative School: New Collaborations Grant, Interior Design at The Creative School, TMU Libraries, Lincoln Alexander School of Law, The Office of Social Innovation, Department of Architecture, and The Office of the Provost and Vice-President, Academic.

For more information on the film screenings, instillations, conversations and 2-day symposium, please visit their website.

Events from Tuesday, May 6 – Friday, May 9 are free. The 2-day symposium from Saturday May 10 – Sunday, May 11 is pay what you can, or a $25 suggested donation.