In Vancouver, in Canada, and across the globe, housing has become a crisis of humanity—one engineered by dictators, presidents, and prime ministers, and perfected by the financial firms that turn homes into sites of extraction. This year’s Massey Lectures will be delivered by Leilani Farha, Global Director of an international human rights organization and former United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing. In Housing Inc., and in this incisive conversation, Farha reckons with a crisis four decades in the making, and argues that the fight for home requires a different ideology in which every person counts. You’ll walk away invigorated to fight for housing justice and humanity. Moderated by Jackie Wong.

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Leilani Farha

LEILANI FARHA is Global Director of The Shift, an international human rights organization focused on housing, finance, and climate. She was UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing and is a world expert on human rights and housing. Leilani is a lawyer, an advocate, and a dreamer who works with anyone interested in creating a just world. She lives in Ottawa, Canada.

Jackie Wong

JACKIE WONG is a senior editor at The Tyee, an online news publication for British Columbia. She edits the Weekender, The Tyee's weekend culture section. Previous to her current role at The Tyee, she was a reporter and editor working on housing and social justice issues.