A Conversation about "The Tenant Class" with Ricardo Tranjan

"The Tenant Class" Convo Recap 1On March 3, 2026, SDC's Meg Walker, Tenant Organizing Lead in our Eviction Prevention Program, sat down for a conversation with Ricardo Tranjan, Senior Researcher at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA).

Ricardo's book, “The Tenant Class,” argues our housing crisis is a class struggle most keenly understood, not by policymakers or academics, but by the tenant organizers fighting on the front lines to keep people housed.

Ahead of the event, Meg shared that "Ricardo's book is in dialogue with the necessary and ongoing movement building for tenant rights and power. What resonated for me about the book is that we are facing a crisis rooted in settler colonialism. Who merits housing? Who benefits from the land we're on?"

Keep reading for some of our favourite quotes and reflections from the night...

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A huge thank you to everyone who attended, and to Richardo Tranjan, Theorypractice Lab (UWaterloo), and Textile (formerly Textile Magazine) for including us a collaborator on this event.

Want to learn more about tenant organizing? Contact us! 519-579-3800, x7
tenantorganizing@waterlooregion.org

Our next event in this collaborative series will be a teach-in on Tenant Organizing. Happening in-person on March 31, 2026 at 6:30pm. Details and registration link here.

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