This session explores the multiple intersections of property, housing, precarity, and advocacy within the shifting landscapes of urban governance and real estate capitalism. From the financialization of rental housing and displacement to tenant activism, housing for international students, and contested ideas of home, the papers in this session investigate both structural forces and everyday experiences of housing injustice. Across Canada and internationally, the presenters unpack how class, race, property regimes, and urban redevelopment shape and reshape what it means to dwell in increasingly precarious urban spaces.

• 10:15 AM
  Moments of Urban Care Within and Beyond the Housing-Property Nexus in Vancouver, Canada
  Trevor Wideman, Vancouver Island University

• 10:30 AM
  Exploring Rental Housing Affordability Issues Among International Students in Halifax, Nova Scotia
  Bright Ofori Kwakye, Saint Mary's University

• 10:45 AM
  Geodemographics and Gentrification: The Role of Spatial Sorting in Rental Housing Financialization
  Andrew Crosby, Carleton University

• 11:00 AM
  Contested Public Housing Futures: Whiteness as Property in Visions of Mixed Housing Redevelopments
  Sneha Sumanth, Carleton University