Housing Justice Archive

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Housing Justice Archive (see housingjusticearchive.com) is a collection of oral history interviews—formerly known as the Housing Justice Oral History Project (Canada). It is an educational resource concerned with centering the voices of the housing justice movement in Canada. With accounts from activists, outreach workers, street nurses, unhoused citizens, artists, writers, and researchers, the project aims to deepen public understanding of the housing crisis in Canada. How did we get here? What organizing efforts and individuals have led the advocacy for unhoused and precariously housed Canadians? Why do things seem to be getting worse? What are the relationships between housing, health, food security, colonization, racism, and contemporary forms of capitalism? The oral history interviews collected here are done in collaboration with several organizations, most based in T