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SUMMARY:Tabling at the 519's Right to Housing Panel
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 -cell\;}-->\n </style>\n Come say hi to Toronto AC
 ORN as we table at the 519's Right to Housing even
 t!<br />\n <br />\n Join us ahead of the National 
 Housing Day to learn more about the fight for hous
 ing affordability and our right to housing. The ev
 ent will bring together grassroots housing advocat
 es\, community leaders\, and housing professionals
  for an engaging conversation about the current ho
 using landscape\, with a focus on housing affordab
 ility\, accessibility\, development\, and the righ
 t to housing.<br />\n <br />\n Following the panel
 \, we will have an interactive activity to identif
 y key housing priorities and develop clear advocac
 y demands for city officials.<br />\n We look forw
 ard to bringing our community together for this im
 portant conversation and to building a stronger co
 llective vision for housing justice.<br />\n <br /
 >\n Meet your panelists:<br />\n <br />\n Martha S
 ingh-Jennings is The 519’s Director of Housing Adv
 ocacy and Support Services. They have been working
  in solidarity with marginalized communities for o
 ver a decade in Canada\, the UK\, and internationa
 lly\, with a particular focus on women\, trans\, a
 nd non-binary persons\, and those experiencing dis
 placement and racialization. Martha will be speaki
 ng about The 519’s Housing Justice paper and the b
 arriers and vulnerabilities 2SLGBTQ+ people face a
 ll along the housing continuum.<br />\n <br />\n A
 bram Braithewaite is with the Toronto Tenant Union
  (TTU)\, a citywide organization of tenants and te
 nant associations in Toronto\, Ontario. TTU is ded
 icated to protecting our homes from landlords and 
 their allies\, by organizing with our neighbours a
 nd providing them with the skills necessary to fig
 ht and win the right to live in affordable\, clean
  and safe housing in the communities we call home.
  Together\, we’re building a collective force that
  can stand up to rising rents\, push back against 
 unfair treatment\, and demand the housing justice 
 Torontonians deserve. Join us [tenantunion.ca] to 
 step into something bigger and help shape a moveme
 nt that refuses to be ignored.<br />\n <br />\n Al
 iah El-houni is a social justice lawyer and legal 
 educator. Her work has focused on advancing the ri
 ghts of poor\, working-class\, and equity-seeking 
 communities\, with particular expertise in housing
 \, criminal\, quasi-criminal\, and prison law. Ali
 ah was a founding Co-Director and Staff Lawyer at 
 the Community Justice Collective (CJC)\, Toronto’s
  first movement lawyering organization\, providing
  pro bono legal support to organized communities a
 nd activists. There she developed a broad\, commun
 ity-based trial and appeal practice representing t
 enants\, unhoused people\, First Nations land defe
 nders\, workers\, protestors\, and student groups 
 across the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area. She 
 is currently the lead housing lawyer at the Toront
 o Metropolitan University Law School’s community l
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DESCRIPTION:\n \n \n Come say hi to Toronto ACORN as we table 
 at the 519's Right to Housing event!\n \n \n \n Jo
 in us ahead of the National Housing Day to learn m
 ore about the fight for housing affordability and 
 our right to housing. The event will bring togethe
 r grassroots housing advocates\, community leaders
 \, and housing professionals for an engaging conve
 rsation about the current housing landscape\, with
  a focus on housing affordability\, accessibility\
 , development\, and the right to housing.\n \n \n 
 \n Following the panel\, we will have an interacti
 ve activity to identify key housing priorities and
  develop clear advocacy demands for city officials
 .\n \n We look forward to bringing our community t
 ogether for this important conversation and to bui
 lding a stronger collective vision for housing jus
 tice.\n \n \n \n Meet your panelists:\n \n \n \n M
 artha Singh-Jennings is The 519’s Director of Hous
 ing Advocacy and Support Services. They have been 
 working in solidarity with marginalized communitie
 s for over a decade in Canada\, the UK\, and inter
 nationally\, with a particular focus on women\, tr
 ans\, and non-binary persons\, and those experienc
 ing displacement and racialization. Martha will be
  speaking about The 519’s Housing Justice paper an
 d the barriers and vulnerabilities 2SLGBTQ+ people
  face all along the housing continuum.\n \n \n \n 
 Abram Braithewaite is with the Toronto Tenant Unio
 n (TTU)\, a citywide organization of tenants and t
 enant associations in Toronto\, Ontario. TTU is de
 dicated to protecting our homes from landlords and
  their allies\, by organizing with our neighbours 
 and providing them with the skills necessary to fi
 ght and win the right to live in affordable\, clea
 n and safe housing in the communities we call home
 . Together\, we’re building a collective force tha
 t can stand up to rising rents\, push back against
  unfair treatment\, and demand the housing justice
  Torontonians deserve. Join us [tenantunion.ca] to
  step into something bigger and help shape a movem
 ent that refuses to be ignored.\n \n \n \n Aliah E
 l-houni is a social justice lawyer and legal educa
 tor. Her work has focused on advancing the rights 
 of poor\, working-class\, and equity-seeking commu
 nities\, with particular expertise in housing\, cr
 iminal\, quasi-criminal\, and prison law. Aliah wa
 s a founding Co-Director and Staff Lawyer at the C
 ommunity Justice Collective (CJC)\, Toronto’s firs
 t movement lawyering organization\, providing pro 
 bono legal support to organized communities and ac
 tivists. There she developed a broad\, community-b
 ased trial and appeal practice representing tenant
 s\, unhoused people\, First Nations land defenders
 \, workers\, protestors\, and student groups acros
 s the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area. She is cu
 rrently the lead housing lawyer at the Toronto Met
 ropolitan University Law School’s community legal 
 clinic\n \n 
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LOCATION:519 Church Street\n Toronto\, ON M4Y 2C9\n Canada\
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