Leilani rejoins us to talk about the ongoing global financialisation of housing, the ways some cities have pushed back, what the genocide in Gaza says about international law and why she still believes human rights are worth fighting for every single day.

How are investors changing the housing market and what political actions are needed to counteract it? With Leilani Farha, Global Director of The Shift and former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing, joins us to discuss the financialization of housing, where homes are no longer seen primarily as places to live but as speculative financial assets.

Our homes hold our memories and hopes for the future. But today, our homes have become commodities. Leilani Farha, the former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing, considers what happens when humanity is stripped out of housing — and what it means for us to collectively ‘return home.’ *This episode is part of our IDEAS at Crow’s Theatre series.

This podcast features city climate expert David Miller hosting progressive policy conversations with urban leaders taking action to limit global heating to 1.5 degrees.

Leilani Farha, global campaigner for housing as a human right and against the financialization of housing, joins Richard Wolff for a conversation on PTSD and the impact of private sector on the human right to housing.

This week, Briahna convenes an all-star panel of guests to break down the economic and philosophical roots of the housing crisis, and how to solve it.

A real estate developer in Toronto is planning to spend a billion dollars buying Canadian houses and turning them into rentals. Today, former UN special rapporteur on housing Leilani Farha on what she’s seen when big money gets into residential rentals.

Today on Front Burner, you'll meet residents of one encampment in Toronto. And Leilani Farha, former UN special rapporteur on the right to housing and global director of the housing advocacy organization The Shift, talks to host Josh Bloch about the complexities of dealing with encampments, and why she thinks there's an opportunity now to make lasting change to Canada's housing crisis.