3 Our research project, funded by The purpose of this present report is Making the Shift, seeks to imagine to share key insights aimed at transformed approaches to eviction actors within the eviction system— and eviction legal systems that are landlords, law and policymakers, rooted in commitments to and eviction adjudicators—whose prevention, human rights, and the decisions directly impact the li. [...] To this end, we held two workshops in Saskatoon and What emerged in our workshops Toronto in the spring of 2024 to was a vision of a housing system engage young people with lived grounded in a commitment to the experience of housing precarity, human right to housing and the discrimination, and eviction about needs of the most vulnerable their ideas for how to transform members of society. [...] Participants offered how housing and eviction systems a vision of a housing system and an could be transformed to approach to eviction that instead incorporate the ideas and prioritizes human care, aspirations of youth. [...] Housing is human: the importance of care and face-to-face relationships Related to the exhortation that Youth emphasized the centrality of landlords and decisionmakers must relationships in rental housing, do more to educate themselves noting that landlord-tenant about the harms of eviction and the relationships should always be individual struggles of tenants, personal and humanizing, and partici. [...] One group explained consistent access to presentations, that the system needs to actively courses, and seminars, and work to remove the power suggested information could be dynamic that favours landlords, shared effectively through social and that decisionmakers in the media platforms and even on system need to acknowledge and signage on public transit.
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Table of Contents
- What Youth Want Landlords Lawmakers Eviction Adjudicators to Know 1
- ABOUT THE AUTHORS 2
- About the authors 3
- Introduction 3
- Residential tenancies relationships implicate human rights and human dignity 3
- Understanding the harms of eviction and the challenges tenants face 3
- Housing is human the importance of care and face-to-face relationships 3
- Empowerment knowledge and protecting the most vulnerable 3
- Making eviction rare prioritizing stability prevention and second chances 3
- The need for wider societal supports and investments 3
- Conclusions 3
- TABLE OF CONTENTS 3
- INTRODUCTION 4
- 1. Residential tenancies relationships implicate human rights and human dignity 6
- 2. Understanding the harms of eviction and the challenges tenants face 8
- Quotes from participants on the theme of 11
- 3. Housing is human the importance of care and face-to-face relationships 12
- Quotes from participants on the importance 14
- 4. Empowerment knowledge and protecting the most vulnerable 15
- Quotes from participants on the theme of empowerment knowledge and protecting 17
- 5. Making eviction rare prioritizing stability prevention and second chances 18
- Quotes from participants on the theme of 20
- 6. The need for wider societal supports and investments 21