Last month, after ACORN tenant rights activists came to speak with us in the studio for Episode 3, I signed their petition to bring back New Brunswick's rent cap. That signature went straight to the Housing Minister's office and I got a letter in response. And wow have I been thinking about this letter ever since.

In today's mini episode, we examine the policies being put forward as alternatives to the rent cap and ask the question: will these policies keep people in their homes?

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Today we have Nick Gefucia on the show from Ellis Don Community Builders with a radical proposition - what if instead of thinking of affordable housing as just real estate we approached it as infrastructure? Gefucia describes a new framework for the public and private sectors to work together to actually get the affordable housing that we need to be built. Listen to learn more.

Well & Fair is a podcast of conversations and we get a lot more out of these conversations with a little info under our belts

That's where Facts & Footnotes comes in. Bonus content to complement the main show, Facts & Footnotes goes a little deeper.

Full episodes will be available on Patreon , but here is our first bonus episode complete to listen to.

We just spoke with the New Brunswick Coalition for Pay Equity in Episode 5, we talked about expanding on Pay Equity Act that was has already been passed. But what does the Pay Equity Act actually say? It's easy to throw around words like pay equity and income equality, but what does our legislation actually accomplish? Let's find out together.

Since Affordable Housing is defined as a percentage of income, we need to talk about inequities in pay. This International Women’s Day, we talk to Krysta Cowling from the New Brunswick Coalition for Pay Equity. She explains what pay equity is and why it’s important. As the conversation unfolds, Krysta and I talk about  how our politics were formed in the crucible of our twenties and how those experiences shape our feminism today. 

Built for Zero is a Canada-wide effort to end chronic homelessness and veteran homelessness.  Today we talk to Dawn Wheadon from the Greater Moncton Homelessness Steering Committee about Moncton's place in this national change effort, what is working and what needs improvement.

ACORN is fighting for the rights of low- and moderate-income people. They are a community-union, made up of members who feel the impacts of the issues they fight for. They have been vocally opposed New Brunswick ending the rent cap, which was a policy put into place by the province when tenants started to see their rents skyrocket overnight during the pandemic. 

Peter Jongeneelen speaks on behalf of ACORN. He also shares with us his personal experience of dealing with landlords who are held accountable by no-one. 

Vincent Merola talks to us about Housing First and why it works. Heis the community development officer for Social Inclusion with the City of Moncton and he chairs the senior housing nonprofit, Downtown City Housing.

Vincent is a recent immigrant to Canada by way of San Francisco where he had worked for a nonprofit that specializes in housing first, before moving to Moncton. He’s proud to boast that just last month, he and his wife became Canadian citizens

Debby Warren, the Executive Director of Ensemble Moncton, comes on the pod to talk about the tragic death of Luke Anthony Landry and how vulnerable people are being forgotten in the housing crisis. 

From the heart of Hub City, downtown Moncton, New Brunswick, Well & Fair is a podcast of conversations with the people making our community more healthy and just. We believe that the full potential of our community is real but untapped. We want to take a small step toward tapping that potential, so let's talk.