# Event Details - **Event Name**: Is Housing a Human Right? With 2026 CBC Massey Lecturer Leilani Farha - **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 21 Oct, 2026 at 12:15 pm – Wed, 21 Oct, 2026 at 02:00 pm (-07:00) - **Event Description**: Leilani Farha and panelists discuss housing as a human right, from global policy to what it means here in the Fraser Valley.About this EventHousing is often treated as an investment. What would it take to treat it as a human right?Leilani Farha, 2026 CBC Massey Lecturer and former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing, joins a panel of local voices to explore that question. Drawing her advocacy as the Global Director of The Shift, an international human rights organization focused on housing, finance, and climate, Farha will speak to what making housing a human right means and how it might be achieved.The conversation will also turn closer to home: what realizing the right to housing could look like in Abbotsford and across Canada. Farha will be joined by UFV alum Jesse Wegenast, Executive Director of Sparrow Community Care Society, along with two UFV alumni who bring lived experience and research perspectives to the discussion.Moderated by Dr. Mark Kersten, Assistant Professor, Criminology and Criminal Justice.PanelistsLEILANI FARHA is the Global Director of The Shift, an international human rights organization focused on housing, finance, and climate. She was the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing and is a world expert on human rights and housing.JESSE WEGENAST is Executive Director of Sparrow Community Care Society in Abbotsford, BC, where he leads shelter programs and community initiatives supporting people experiencing homelessness, with a particular focus on older adults.LESANDRA SIMPSON is a person with lived experiences who has been on her healing journey since 2013. She currently works in a local health authority as a Social Worker, in a role that integrates health and housing.MAYU OCHI is a recent graduate of the University of the Fraser Valley with a BA in Economics with distinction. Her undergraduate research examined the determinants of housing vacancies across Japanese prefectures, exploring how demographic, economic, and regional factors contribute to Japan’s growing number of vacant homes. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/abbotsford/is-housing-a-human-right-with-2026-cbc-massey-lecturer-leilani-farha/100002000654665962 - **Event Categories**: fitness, health-wellness, Art, fine-arts - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 - **Event Highlights**: - Duration: 1 hour 45 minutes - Location: University of the Fraser Valley - Languages: English ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: CAD ## Event venue details - **city**: Abbotsford - **state**: BC - **country**: Canada - **location**: University of the Fraser Valley - **lat**: 49.0286216 - **long**: -122.2852935 - **full address**: University of the Fraser Valley, 33844 King Road, Abbotsford, Canada ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Is Housing a Human Right? 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