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Gimme Shelter
Closing the Middle Class Housing Gap in Israel and Canada
Crushed by lower incomes and rising costs for child care, taxes and saving for retirement, Israel and Vancouver’s middle classes are facing bleak housing options, impacting every aspect of their lives.
Join housing experts Gil Gan-Mor of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), Dr. Penny Gurstein of the University of British Columbia and Dr. Paul Kershaw, Founder of Generation Squeeze, as they highlight the root causes of Israel and Canada’s difficulties in rethinking housing for middle class families.
About the speakers:
Attorney Gil Gan-Mor joined ACRI in 2007 and is currently the coordinator of ACRI's Right to Housing and Right to Education initiatives. Mr. Gan-Mor received his LL.M. in International Human Rights Law from American University in Washington DC in 2007, and holds an LL.B. from Tel Aviv University. Previously, Mr. Gan-Mor spent two years as an attorney at HaMoked: Center for the Defense of the Individual, where he provided legal assistance to Palestinian residents of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. He has also served on a voluntary basis as the Legal Advisor to the Israeli Association for Gays, Lesbians, Transgendered Individuals and Bisexuals, and as the director of an online legal forum set up by the Youth Pride organization.
Dr. Penny Gurstein is Professor and Director of the School of Community and Regional Planning and the Centre for Human Settlements at UBC. She specializes in the socio-cultural aspects of community planning with particular emphasis on those who are the most marginalized in planning processes. Her research focuses on developing strategies and interventions that encourage diversity, equity and urban sustainability in the planning and design of communities. She is currently the co-Principal Investigator of Housing Justice, a Peter Wall Solutions Initiative project, focusing on housing access and affordability.
Dr. Paul Kershaw is a farmer morning and night. By day, he is an academic, public speaker, media contributor and volunteer. In these latter roles, he is one of Canada's leading thinkers about family policy, receiving two national prizes from the Canadian Political Science Association for his research. 'Armed with a laptop and a raft of statistics,' The Province newspaper describes Kershaw as 'a one-man road show trying to change Canada one talk at a time.' Change is necessary, he argues, because Canada no longer works for all generations. At the University of British Columbia, in the College for Interdisciplinary Studies, Kershaw is the Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP) Scholar of Social Care, Citizenship and the Determinants of Health.
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