Free City Radio
Tuesday May 20th, 2025 with Stefan Christoff
265 Housing justice organizer Fred Burrill on financialization as social violence

Listen to an interview with long time community organizer for housing justice and researcher Fred Burrill speaking about the ways that the systemic financialization of housing contributes to social violence for working class and low income people. Fred speaks about his research work in the context of having organized for many years with P.O.P.I.R. in the southwest of Montreal, particularly in St. Henri. Fred talks about the arc of municipal policies that have driven housing financialization in the city and how that reflects broader global questions around the commodification of housing.