The well being of our communities depends on all members having a secure, safe, adequate, permanent place to call home. Shelter is at the top of Maslov’s hierarchy of needs yet we promote housing to be primary treated and used as an investment affording some huge profits while others go without or risk becoming homeless. As David Moscrop argues, it is time to decommodify housing, and make it a right. – Melinda Zytaruk
“When police in Toronto launched an incursion into Trinity Bellwoods Park to remove an encampment of unhoused folks, they exposed what columnist Shawn Micallef called “Toronto’s ugliest side.” . . . [that] permits the wealthy to oppress the most marginalized among us to extract profit from a core human need […]”
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