UPDATE – WORKSHOP:
Intro to tenants’ rights, or how to take on your landlord and not get evicted!
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16th from 1-3pm
Lev Bukhman Room, 2nd floor SSMU Student Centre, 3489 McTavish (Metro Peel)
with Rachel Gotthilf & K.
What good are tenants’ rights if we don’t assert them? This interactive workshop will familiarize participants with their rights as tenants, and explain possible tactics to defend these rights in tricky situations. We will discuss the basics (leases, renewal, etc.), as well as more problematic realities facing tenants, including gentrification and extreme rental board delays. To end, participants will explore community responses to housing concerns, and find out how to get involved in Montreal tenant activism.
Rachel Gotthilf hails from Winnipeg and is entering her third year at the McGill Faculty of Law. She is a volunteer advisor with Project Genesis, a community organization in Montreal, where she provides free legal information in the areas of housing, social assistance, child benefits, pensions, and healthcare. Rachel enjoys gardening, vegan cooking, knitting, cycling, and playing her tuba.
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***This workshop is being presented as part of Social Justice Days. Intended to stimulate an alternative political culture in the McGill University community, Social Justice Days has been held for half a decade by QPIRG McGill and the SSMU Equity Commissioner. Every winter semester, we’ve got your fill of workshops, discussions, film screenings, and performances engaging local and global issues.***