Leilani Farha delivers the CBC Massey Lecture on the roots of the housing crisis, exploring systemic drivers beyond supply and demand.
Leilani Farha delivers the CBC Massey Lecture in Halifax on September 12, bringing one of Canada's longest-running public lecture series to the city for this instalment. Farha is a prominent housing rights advocate, and she'll be spending the evening exploring the deeper roots of the housing crisis.
Her approach is to look beyond the usual talk of supply and demand. Instead of focusing on the immediate shortage of homes, she'll be examining the systemic drivers that have made housing unaffordable for so many people. It's a way of framing the issue that gets into why the crisis is happening in the first place, rather than just what the symptoms look like on the surface. If you've spent any time following the housing conversation lately, you know how often it gets stuck on the numbers of new builds; Farha is pulling the lens back to look at the structures behind those numbers.
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The CBC Massey Lecture has been running for a long time, and this particular session lands in Halifax. For those who aren't familiar, the series brings different speakers to the public year after year to talk through a single, pressing topic. Farha's focus here is housing, a subject that's felt pretty acutely across the city and the country lately. Tickets and further information are available at cbc.ca/masseys.
