Pandemic Priorities: The Eviction Crisis (Harbinger Society Presents ep12)

On episode 12 housing rights advocate David DesBaillet presents Housing Party, a recurring interview-length Harbinger Society segment exploring the crisis of housing in Canada, for a conversation with organizer and social housing policy scholar Josh Hawley on the recent victory for tenants in Ottawa’s Sandy Hill neighbourhood, the disturbingly cozy relationship between Doug Ford’s Conservatives and Ontario’s Landlord and Tenant Tribunal and how Josh's tweet about about Ottawa mayor Jim Watson made him a target of academic cancel culture.

Plus: Atlantic correspondent James Brown re-lives some truly creepy landlord trauma on a new installment of ‘Solitary Thoughts’.

Find David and Josh on Twitter @DDesBaillets and @SqwashHawley

Find Josh’s book ‘Villages in Cities’ at http://blackrosebooks.net/products/view/Villages+in+Cities%3A+Community+Land+Ownership%2C+Cooperative+Housing%2C+and+the+Milton+Parc+Story/83754

Find more of Paul Cargnello’s music at https://paulcargnello.bandcamp.com/

Introduction music courtesy of Henry Lee. Check out the recent episode of his narrative interview podcast 'Deathnography' featuring ‘The Jakarta Method’ author Vincent Blevins and The Leap program director Maya Menezes at https://open.spotify.com/episode/1tV0kHpgxBxK9JClIvBwzl?si=5LBsuzA3Q9qT6GKFbTaiNw&utm_source=copy-link&nd=1

For more on the Sandy Hill tenant victory read https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/osgoode-street-renovictions-rooming-houses-1.6010715

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This conversation was recorded on May 3rd, 2021.