Thank you to everyone who attended ECOHH’s National Housing Day event on November 22 at Garneau Theatre.

We hope you found the documentary “Push” informative, and maybe a little startling, as it presented the huge influence of big finance in shifting the world of rent from a common social good to an economic issue of financial profit.

We need to keep taking action. Two of the significant ways we can counter the force of financialization of housing are to get government action to regulate it and to get government investment to build social housing for the growing numbers of people who cannot afford market rent.

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If you missed seeing the documentary, it can be rented or purchased to view on-line at https://vimeo.com/ondemand/pushthefilm

The message from Leilani Farha (nine minutes) updating the situation since the movie was made can be viewed at this link.

The submission ECOHH made to the federal panel looking into financialization is available at this link.

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The on-going work of The Shift, the organization created by Leilani Farha, with both financialization and encampments can be found at https://make-the-shift.org/about-us/. 

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Laura Murphy, former Chair and long-standing member of ECOHH, presented an update on financialization and its impact on Edmonton housing. You can read her brief at this link. 

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