Speaker: Mohamad Bsat (he/him)
Tenants living in Hamilton are experiencing dramatic increases in evictions, a crisis in compounded by racism that further limits housing options for racialized communities. For our sixth National Housing Day service, our speaker is Mohamad Bsat, a staff lawyer at the Hamilton Community Legal Clinic who specializes in housing law. He will talk about his commitment to housing and to anti-oppression work, what he is seeing in Hamilton today, and ways our congregation can contribute to solutions.
There will be no chat rooms after today’s service. Instead, please stay for a half-hour conversation to further explore these issues with our speaker.
National Housing Day (officially November 22) builds on a November 22, 1998 motion by the Big City Mayor’s Caucus of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities that declared that the end of federal funding for social housing funding had created a housing affordability and homelessness emergency. That emergency still exists. Today’s service also builds on our recent congregational vote “to affirm and promote individual and communal action that accountably dismantles racism and other oppressions in ourselves and in our institutions.”