Tag Archives: affordable housing

Radio: The hard, slow work of opposing poverty in an era of growing crisis

Posted on December 20, 2022 by Scott

Sandee Lovas and Silke Force are members of the Alliance Against Poverty, a grassroots anti-poverty group in Kitchener-Waterloo, which is an hour southwest of Toronto in southern Ontario. Scott Neigh interviews them about the impact of poverty on their lives … Continue reading →

Posted in Episode, Radio | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Radio: Bringing sustainability and justice together in a small community

Posted on October 4, 2022 by Scott

Jason Mogus is a long-time climate campaigner and a co-founder of Salt Spring Solutions, a local group on Salt Spring Island in British Columbia that is seeking to address their community’s housing crisis in sustainable ways, in the face of … Continue reading →

Posted in Episode, Radio | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Radio — Tenant organizing in Canada’s most expensive city

Posted on January 9, 2018 by Scott

On this week’s episode of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh interviews Kell Gerlings and Neil Vokey about the work of the Vancouver Tenants Union. Kell is an organizer with an anti-poverty group called Raise the Rates and is a member … Continue reading →

Posted in Episode, Radio | Tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Radio — Organizing very low-income tenants in the Downtown Eastside

Posted on June 8, 2016 by Scott

[audio:http://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/309979051-scott-neigh-talking-radical-trr-ep-168-jun-82016-organizing-very-low-income-tenants-in-the-downtown-eastside.mp3] On this week’s episode of Talking Radical Radio, I speak with Wendy Pederson. She is an organizer with the Downtown Eastside SRO Collaborative, a group that is organizing tenants in single-room occupancy (or SRO) hotels in Vancouver. The Downtown … Continue reading →

Posted in Episode, Radio | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Radio — The long fight in Quebec for adequate, affordable housing for all

Posted on November 18, 2015 by Scott

[audio:http://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/309846929-scott-neigh-talking-radical-trr-ep-140-nov-182015-the-long-fight-in-quebec-for-adequate-affordable-housing-for-all.mp3] On this week’s episode of Talking Radical Radio, I speak with Émilie Joly. She is a community orgnizer with FRAPRU, or Le Front d’action populaire en réaménagement urbain, and she talks with me about their long history of research, … Continue reading →

Posted in Episode, Radio | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment