Publication Date
2015
Keywords
Right to housing; Canada. Charter of Rights and Freedoms; Ontario
Document Type
Voices and Perspectives
English Abstract
This paper describes the history of the Right to Housing (R2H) Coalition of Ontario and the role of the Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario (ACTO) within the Coalition. The R2H Coalition provided support to the applicants in the Right to Housing Charter Challenge. The Coalition also engaged in a variety of educational and community organizing activities in support of the right to housing and the creation of a federally funded affordable housing strategy. This paper, based on the author’s personal experiences within the R2H Coalition, examines how the adoption of community organizing principles could strengthen campaigns for systemic social change, including community organizing work undertaken by community legal clinics.
Citation Information
Dirks, Yutaka.
"Community Campaigns for the Right to Housing: Lessons from the R2H Coalition of Ontario."
Journal of Law and Social Policy
24.
(2015): 135-142.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.60082/0829-3929.1212
https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/jlsp/vol24/iss1/7