The Right to Remain: Learning from the Housing Justice Praxis in Vancouver

The Right to Remain Collective, based in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, works to preserve the city’s vital reserve of existing affordable housing stock – single room occupancy hotels, or SROs. Visiting members of the Collective will be in conversation with Los Angeles-based organizers and researchers.

Welcome:

• Ananya Roy, UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy

Residential Hotels in Our Downtowns:

• Jeff Masuda, Queens University and The Right to Remain Collective
• Wendy Pedersen, DTES SRO Collective and The Right to Remain Collective
• Deshonay Dozier, Cal State University Long Beach

Property, Tenancy, and The Right to Remain:

• Nicholas Blomley, Simon Fraser University and The Right to Remain Collective
• Elizabeth Blaney, Union de Vecinos and UCLA Activist-in-Residence
• Leonardo Vilchis, Union de Vecinos and UCLA Activist-in-Residence

Building Power and Organizing Across Difference:

• Samantha Pranteau, The Right to Remain Collective
• Jane Nguyen, Ktown For All and UCLA Activist-in-Residence
• Henriëtte Brouwers, LA Poverty Department
• John Malpede, LA Poverty Department