Balancing Power between Tenants & Landlords

Speaker:

Dr. Ted Rutland, Concordia University, Canada.

About:

The history of tenant-landlord relationships is inextricable from that of race and class. For slaves, housing had been an aspect of their captivity. Overnight, slaves became tenants. Contemporary landlord practices and the laws that govern them exist along this continuum of violent inequity. How does this history influence internal governance and practices within housing organizations? In landlord practices? Among tenants? In community relations?

Emcees:

Dr. Jude Smith Rachele, CEO, Abundant Sun

Xusana Davis, Executive Director, Office of Racial Equity, State of Vermont