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The Many Faces of Urban and Rural Displacement Project will take place in 4 distinct communities across Ontario: Kingston and District , Oxford County , Cornwall and District , and the Region of York . Funding was made possible through the Community Based Tenant Initiative (CBTI) with the Community Housing Transformation Centre . We will engage and work alongside tenants with lived experience of precarious housing, collecting the narratives of those who have been impacted in both urban and rural settings an
Displacement is the term we use because it captures more than just the act of eviction. Displacement represents the loss of home, community, access to services/family and other natural networks when people are removed from where they have been living. The project was inspired by the groundbreaking work in displacement mapping and community organizing pioneered by the Social Development Centre Waterloo Region in conjunction with the University of Waterloo , both of whom will be consulting with us and partne
One of the most consistent issues that staff with the Federation of Metro Tenants’ Association (FMTA), hear through the tenant hotline is displacement outside of the GTA. Yet, not as much work has been done to understand or combat displacement in urban areas outside the GTA or rural areas in Ontario. Our project is ideally positioned to address the gap in awareness and action while also growing tenant and local community capacity to continue necessary organizing work in each of the five areas.
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