Worship Service: Should we politicize housing?
Should we politicize housing?
Ricardo Tranjan’s national bestselling book, The Tenant Class, argues that the exaggerated emphasis on supply and demand has depoliticized the housing question in Canada. He argues that feeding more supply into the current housing market won’t, on its own, bring rents and house prices down because the market itself is the problem. In his book, other research and commentary, Ricardo argues governments need to regulate the market and invest in non-market housing, but he warns that that won’t happen without a fight. Powerful interests don’t surrender power voluntarily; they only do so in response to the pressure they can’t ignore. Ending economic exploitation in housing is a political question, and requires building power and confronting economic elites, similarly to what labour unions have done in the past.
Speaker: Ricardo Tranjan
Service Leader: allison calvern
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