Architects Against Housing Alienation
Canadian activist architect collective
Architects Against Housing Alienation (AAHA) is a Canadian collective that brings together architects, urban planners, activists, and advocates from across the country. The collective’s primary focus is to address housing injustice and challenge the systemic issues that underlie Canada’s housing crisis. Their mission is to confront the financialization of housing and advocate for transformative change, aiming to dismantle the profit-driven model that currently dominates the housing sector.
In 2023, the collective occupied the Canadian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale of Architecture with the campaign Not for Sale!, which called for an end to housing alienation in Canada. The project was commissioned by the Canada Council for the Arts.
Formation
The collective was founded in 2021 by Adrian Blackwell, David Fortin, Matthew Soules, Sara Stevens, Sim'oogit Saa-Bax Patrick Reid Stewart, and Tijana Vujosevic. The University of British Columbia School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture serves as the lead organization for the project, in partnership with the University of Waterloo School of Architecture.
Ten teams, based in locations across Canada and comprising over 80 members, are divided into individual roles based on the group's guiding principles. These teams have worked to establish the campaign’s demands and manifesto, in correlation with the Not for Sale! project, and continue to develop new proposals that call for policy change and advocate for housing justice.
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