Jessica Parish

Abstract Settler colonial urbanisms and financialisation are two well cultivated areas of thought; however, both have been underutilised to explain the state of housing precarity in contemporary Canada. To address this gap this paper reframes financialisation and assetization through the lens of the settler colonial city and its racialised labour and property regimes.

Disguised behind the pomp and ceremony, Labour have set out their stall on what they want to achieve in Parliament over the next year or so. While we can draw lots of conclusions from what was included and what wasn’t, what is very clear is that this is a government with ambition. This King’s Speech was second only to Tony Blair’s in 2005 in terms of the number of pieces of legislation it covered and shows a Labour Government wanting to do a lot with its time in parliament.

By Jessica ParishContributors Chiara Padovani Tues., March 31, 2020timer4 min. read Enough with milquetoast incrementalism. We need housing policy solutions for right now, and for the future that is to come. We are in the midst of a crisis of massive proportions, whose consequences will reverberate through every aspect of people’s everyday lives for months, if not years to come.