In the face of the global housing crisis, renters are building people power to win a future where everyone has a home. In this webinar, speakers from Scotland and Germany will share their insights from campaigning for rent controls and the expropriation of hundreds of thousands of rental housing units owned by corporate landlords. Together with Australian housing advocates, we’ll unpack what these lessons mean for building a powerful housing movement here.
This webinar is free to attend. Register via the link below.
SPEAKERS
Chels Hood Withey
Founder & Organiser, House You
Chels Hood Withey (they/them) is a community organiser, and the founder of House You, a grassroots housing first organisation based on unceded Bundjalung Country in the Northern Rivers of New South Wales. Dedicated to organising the people power required for systemic change, so everybody gets a house.
Emma Saunders
National Organiser, Living Rent
Emma Saunders is a community organiser and geographer based in Edinburgh, Scotland. She was a founding member of Living Rent, Scotland's tenants' and community union, and is currently the national organiser for the union, supporting members to build local branches and national campaigns to fight for genuinely affordable, quality and secure housing. Emma was previously a labour organiser in France supporting precarious workers to organise in their workplace and wrote a PhD on international labour solidarity in the semiconductor sector.
Amir Ishikawa
Deutsche Wohnen und co. Enteignen (DWE)
ACCESSIBILITY
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Zoom - This webinar will be held online via Zoom. If you have access to a computer or laptop, we recommend you join the training by computer to make navigating the materials easier. See here for accessibility documentation for Zoom; including a list of keyboard shortcuts here.
Video norms - We allow participants to turn off their cameras / to go off screen during the webinar and encourage you to do so if it is helpful for your wellbeing during the training.
Chat - On Zoom you will be able to use the chat function. Participants will be asked to introduce themselves in chat, and to enter responses in the chat.
Captions - We will have captions enabled in Zoom.
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Other additional support - In the registration form, we will ask you for your access needs. If you require something in place that is not already arranged, or if you need more information about any part of the workshop, we will work with you to provide this.
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If you have any questions about accessibility, please contact us via info@australianprogress.org.au