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URL:https://events.ufv.ca/events/is-housing-a-human-right-with-2026-cbc-ma
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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\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\
 nHousing is often treated as an investment. What would it take to treat it
  as a human right?\n\nLeilani Farha\, 2026 CBC Massey Lecturer and former 
 UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing\, joins a panel of local voi
 ces to explore that question. Drawing her advocacy as the Global Director 
 of The Shift\, an international human rights organization focused on housi
 ng\, finance\, and climate\, Farha will speak to what making housing a hum
 an 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 alum Jesse We
 genast\, Executive Director of Sparrow Community Care Society\, along with
  two UFV alumni who bring lived experience and research perspectives to th
 e discussion.\n\nModerated by Dr. Mark Kersten\, Assistant Professor\, Cri
 minology and Criminal Justice.\nPanelists\nLEILANI FARHA is the Global Dir
 ector of The Shift\, an international human rights organization focused on
  housing\, finance\, and climate. She was the UN Special Rapporteur on the
  Right to Housing and is a world expert on human rights and housing.\n\nJE
 SSE WEGENAST is Executive Director of Sparrow Community Care Society in Ab
 botsford\, BC\, where he leads shelter programs and community initiatives 
 supporting people experiencing homelessness\, with a particular focus on o
 lder adults.\n\nLESANDRA SIMPSON is a person with lived experiences who ha
 s been on her healing journey since 2013. She currently works in a local h
 ealth authority as a Social Worker\, in a role that integrates health and 
 housing.\n\nMAYU OCHI is a recent graduate of the University of the Fraser
  Valley with a BA in Economics with distinction.Her undergraduate research
  examined the determinants of housing vacancies across Japanese prefecture
 s\, exploring how demographic\, economic\, and regional factors contribute
  to Japan’s growing number of vacant homes.\n\n\nClick HERE to register!
 \n\n
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