Join the Stratford Affordable Housing Alliance, , Thursday May 23 at the Local Community Food Centre in Stratford, ON, from 5:45pm–9pm for our Community Land Trusts (CLT) Information Event:
Expert panelists will paint a picture of how Community Land Trusts and cooperative ownership can address our local affordability concerns around affordable housing and affordable farmland. You will learn what concrete steps you can take, right now, to help realize this vision of community owned and controlled affordable housing and agriculture in Stratford, Perth and other rural communities/centres in the region. You will also have the opportunity to participate in a Q&A with our panelists and a community consultation about potential next steps. As part of the panel presentation, we’ll screen two short films about Canadian farms – local, Lucky Bug Farm in Baden, ON and Ferme Coopérative Tourne-Sol in Les Cèdres, QC. The films speak to the challenges farmers face securing sustainably affordable land and housing as well as how cooperative models can help. .
Panelists include :
- Dominique Russell from the Canadian Network of Community Land Trusts (communityland.ca)
- Susanna Redekop, from Freedom Dreams Cooperative Education (freedomdreamscoop.com),
- Jon Gagnon from Sundance Commons (sundancecommons.com)
- Boris Emanuel, Executive Director of Love Your Neighbour Communities (lyncommunities.com) – and the Mill Block Community hub,
- Samantha Eby and Michael Piper from University of Toronto’s ReHousing Project (ReHousing.ca),
- Scott Stager Piatowski from the Community Housing Transformation Centre (https://centre.support/)
- Akanee Yamaki and the FairBnB team (FairBnB.ca)
Plus, a brief presentation prepared by Martin Straathof of the Ontario Farmland Trust (OTF) will be presented on his behalf.
The Stratford Affordable Housing Alliance is advocating for Proportionately Mixed Income (PMI) Affordable Housing in Stratford and Perth County.
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