{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"She They Us ","title":"Home as Resistance – Black Women and the Cost of Belonging in Canada","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4834,"description":"Season 3 Episode 4Andrea begins the episode with housing advocate and urban scholar Stephanie Allen, a Black woman born and raised in Canada, who helps unearth the often-obscured history behind housing systems in North America. Stephanie traces how urban planning, real estate practices, and colonial policy have long excluded and displaced Black communities, even when those policies were presented as neutral. She shares her own path from real estate development into social-justice-focused urban research, illuminating the deep structural roots of today’s inequities.Together, she and Andrea explore why Black women in particular face compounded barriers at the intersections of racism, sexism, and economic inequality. Stephanie reflects on the role of home as a place of safety, resistance, and cultural identity within Black communities—and why meaningful change now requires political courage, from those in government to everyday citizens, to treat housing as a human right for all rather than a commodity.Next, we meet Elvenia Grace Sandiford, who immigrated from Jamaica in the late ’80s and has spent decades working on the front lines in crisis centres and transition houses. Through supporting women escaping violence, she has seen firsthand how deeply housing shapes every aspect of a woman’s life, from safety and health to family stability. She also highlights how Black women are routinely left out of the data and policy decisions that shape housing systems.Elvenia shares deeply personal experiences of discrimination she has faced in her work, from job opportunities denied because she was a Black woman to hostility while supporting survivors. Through her organization, Harambee Alliance, she works to make visible the housing precarity that often remains hidden, particularly for Black women who move quietly from couch to couch, uncounted and unsupported. Even today, with a new degree in hand and a lifetime of experience in her field, she faces Vancouver’s high costs and...","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}