{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"She They Us ","title":"Housing Justice in Motion","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3529,"description":"Season 3 Episode 6In the season finale of She.They.Us., host Andrea Reimer closes this chapter with Jayne Malenfant, a non-binary researcher and advocate based at McGill University whose story brings together everything we’ve heard this season about housing precarity, belonging, and survival. From growing up in Northern Ontario to navigating hidden homelessness, couch surfing, and unsafe housing, Jayne shares what it means to live inside systems that were never designed for women and gender-diverse people to thrive.Jayne’s lived experience and research reveal how housing insecurity often hides in plain sight in overcrowded apartments, unstable arrangements, and the quiet fear of losing shelter. They explore how gender-diverse people, especially youth, face unique pathways into homelessness through family rejection, discrimination in the rental market, and the lack of safe, affirming housing options. At the heart of their work is a powerful truth - home is not just a place, but a feeling of safety, dignity, and being seen.This episode moves beyond the failures of the system to highlight what communities have built instead: mutual aid, chosen families, peer-led housing, and informal care networks that Jayne calls “housing justice in motion.” Together, Andrea and Jayne unpack concepts like agency, choice, and “radical imagining” - the practice of dreaming beyond what feels politically possible to envision housing systems that are truly just, human, and inclusive.As the season closes, Andrea and writer-producer Linda Rourke reflect on the stories shared across the series — stories not of victimhood, but of resistance, creativity, and leadership. This final conversation is an invitation to listeners to see housing not just as policy, but as relationship, responsibility, and collective care and to believe that a system built for all of us is not only necessary, but possible.The last word goes to the women and gender-diverse people we’ve heard from this season. We pull...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/FyS5L0aokTEqw3M81F3NG-1pIj_wjWeAlkjVfYfKmW0/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8xNTUx/NjZjZDZjMTYzNjFm/YjU5OGIyMzhhMmU2/YjA2Ny5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}