Housing Inc. - December Book Club Meetup

Thanks to everyone who voted for the next book selection. For the December meetup we are discussing: Housing Inc.:
A Global Takeover and Our Fight For Home.

About the book:
Authored by Leilani Farha

Leilani Farha has been in more homes than most people will ever visit—a four-door sedan in San Diego, a lean-to by railway tracks in Lagos, a windowless motel room in Paris, a tent on a Toronto beach. What people tell her first is never that they need housing, it’s that they want to be treated like human beings. Housing Inc. explains why they have to ask.
Housing has become a crisis of humanity—one created by design and decades in the making.

Writing from the centre of global housing debates, Farha reckons with a crisis four decades in the making, engineered by dictators, presidents, and prime ministers, and perfected by the financial firms that turn homes into sites of extraction. The same logic that justifies dispossessing Indigenous Peoples of their lands and resources now prices out a generation, displaces tenants, destroys communities, and disappears homeless people.

This crisis of humanity plays out in every country in the world. With fierce clarity, Farha argues that the fight for home requires not just better policy, but a different ideology altogether—one rooted in law, humanity, and imagination—where every person counts.

Information on the book and some options for purchasing it are linked here: https://www.indiebookstores.ca/book/9781487014285/

Unfortunately, all the copies at VPL appear to be on hold.

Meetup Location: Bean Around The World (Cambie & Hastings)
175 West Hastings Street, Vancouver.

Whether you finish the book or not, you're welcome to join!