Session 5. Housing, Human Rights, Racism, Discrimination

Housing, Human Rights, Racism, Discrimination 

Download PDF of David Hulchanski's Powerpoint presentation: The Human Right to Adequate Housing

Why do provinces often confiscate federal benefits from people who clearly need them? An explanation of how some provinces and even the federal government claw back through taxes or higher rents some of the COVID and related income support being provided – from the poorest households in the nation. Download John Stapleton and The Toronto Star explain.

 

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Topic:   David Hulchanski's Zoom SWK4422 Classroom
Time:    Tuesday, May 26, 2020,  6:00pm

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Alyssa Brierley, guest expert for a discussion of housing discrimination at 8pm

Alyssa Brierley, Executive Director and General Counsel, Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation, is a lawyer and public policy professional with over a decade of experience in public policy, legal service, research and operations management. Prior to joining CERA, Alyssa served as the health, social, justice and labour policy advisor to the President of the Treasury Board of Ontario and as the Director of Policy to the Minister of Economic Development, Employment and Infrastructure. Alyssa has also worked as a legal research and communications advisor to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, as a lawyer and policy analyst at the Ontario College of Teachers, and completed her articles at Torys LLP. Alyssa holds a BA from the University of Waterloo, an MA in Political Science from York University, a Juris Doctor from Osgoode Hall Law School and is completing a Ph.D. in Political Science at York University, focused on the right to food in India.

 

Readings

  1. Novac, S., J. Darden, J.D. Hulchanski & A. Seguin (2004) “Housing Discrimination in Canada: Stakeholder Views and Research Gaps,” Finding Room, Chapter 7, 135-145.   Download PDF

        

  2. Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation (2009) “Sorry it’s Rented”: Measuring Discrimination in Toronto’s Rental Housing Market, Toronto: CERA.   Download PDF

       

  3. CERA (2011) "Sorry it's Rented": Know Your Rights, Housing Discrimination is Against the Law, Toronto: CERA.   Download PDF

       

  4. McIsaac, E. & B. Porter (2019) Housing Rights: Ottawa takes a historic step forward. Literary Review of Canada, November.   Download PDF

        

  5. United Nations (2020) UN Guidelines for the implementation of the Right to Adequate Housing. NY: General Assembly.   Download PDF

       

  6. Sunstein, Cass R. (1997) “Why Markets Don’t Stop Discrimination,” Chapter 6 of his Free Markets and Social Justice, NY: Oxford University Press, 151-165.   Download PDF

       

 

Supplemental (optional) Readings

  • Keating, W. D. (2018). Housing Market Discrimination. The Cambridge Handbook of Social Problems, Vol. 1, Chapter 22.   Download PDF     

  • Alston, Philip (2015) “Extreme inequality as the antithesis of human rights,” Open Democracy.   Download PDF

         

  • Porter, B. (2014) International human rights in anti-poverty and housing strategies: Making the connection, Chapter 1, M. Jackman and B. Porter, eds., Advancing Social Rights in Canada, Toronto: Irwin Law.     Download PDF

       

  • Porter, B. (2004) “The Right to Adequate Housing in Canada,” Chapter 3, Finding Room.   Download PDF   

  • Ontario Human Rights Commission (2012) In the zone: Housing, human rights and municipal planning. Toronto: Province of Ontario.   Download PDF

        

  • Ontario Human Rights Commission (2008) Human Rights and Rental Housing in Ontario. Toronto.     Download PDF

       

  • Walks, R. A., & Bourne, L. S. (2006) Ghettos in Canada’s cities? Racial segregation, ethnic enclaves and poverty concentration in Canadian urban areas. Canadian Geographer, 50(3), 273-297.     Download PDF

       

 

      Women, Housing Rights, Discrimination       

  • Status of Women Canada (2018) Women and Housing: Identifying Themes, A literature review, Ottawa: CMHC.     Download PDF

       

  • COHRE (2008) Women and Housing Rights, Geneva: Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions.   Download PDF

       

  • CERA & the National Working Group on Women and Housing in Canada (2007) Human Rights and Rental Housing in Ontario: Response to an Ontario Human Rights Commission Consultation Paper.   WebLink Links to an external site.