When it comes to the housing crisis, little attention is paid to social relations. Understanding this crisis, and thinking about housing justice, requires an understanding of how the increasingly unequal relationships around housing manifest themselves.
As a doctoral candidate in political philosophy at the Université de Montréal, I am interested in the housing crisis from the perspective of socio-economic rights. In my thesis, I show how these rights, particularly the right to housing, are necessary to guarantee just social relations in democracies such as Canada and Québec.
As part of this research, I scripted the short film Losing Your Home, directed by Emmanuel Rioux. The aim of the film was to approach the housing crisis from the point of view of those who suffer from it.
