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URL:https://events.ufv.ca/events/is-housing-a-human-right-with-2026-cbc-ma
 ssey-lecturer-leilani-farha/
SUMMARY:Is Housing a Human Right? With 2026 CBC Massey Lecturer Leilani Far
 ha
DESCRIPTION:Is Housing a Human Right? With 2026 CBC Massey Lecturer Leilani
  Farha\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLeilani Farha and panelists discuss housing as a human
  right\, from global policy to what it means here in the Fraser Valley.\n\
 n\n\n\n\n\nHousing is often treated as an investment. What would it take t
 o treat it as a human right?\n\nLeilani Farha\, 2026 CBC Massey Lecturer a
 nd former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing\, joins a panel of
  local voices to explore that question. Drawing her advocacy as the Global
  Director of The Shift\, an international human rights organization focuse
 d on housing\, finance\, and climate\, Farha will speak to what making hou
 sing a human right means and how it might be achieved.\n\nThe conversation
  will also turn closer to home: what realizing the right to housing could 
 look like in Abbotsford and across Canada. Farha will be joined by UFV alu
 m Jesse Wegenast\, Executive Director of Sparrow Community Care Society\, 
 along with two UFV alumni who bring lived experience and research perspect
 ives to the discussion.\n\nModerated by Dr. Mark Kersten\, Assistant Profe
 ssor\, Criminology and Criminal Justice.\nPanelists\nLEILANI FARHA is the 
 Global Director of The Shift\, an international human rights organization 
 focused on housing\, finance\, and climate. She was the UN Special Rapport
 eur on the Right to Housing and is a world expert on human rights and hous
 ing. She has visited hundreds of people in their homes across six continen
 ts—people living in homeless encampments and informal settlements\, tena
 nts and homeowners. Leilani is a lawyer\, an advocate and a dreamer and wo
 rks with anyone interested in creating a more just world. She lives in Ott
 awa\, Canada.\n\nJESSE WEGENAST is Executive Director of Sparrow Community
  Care Society in Abbotsford\, BC\, where he leads shelter programs and com
 munity initiatives supporting people experiencing homelessness\, with a pa
 rticular focus on older adults. For more than fifteen years\, he has worke
 d to bridge the divide between marginalized residents and the wider commun
 ity\, bringing their experiences into public conversations about housing\,
  dignity\, and belonging. He holds a BA in Geography from the University o
 f the Fraser Valley and received UFV’s Young Distinguished Alumni Award 
 in 2019.\n\n\nClick HERE to register!\n\n
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