Schaffzin, GabiCampbell, Susan2025-07-232025-07-232025-04-172025-07-23https://hdl.handle.net/10315/43008The resurgence of the tenant movement in Canada is a response to the dramatic erosion in affordable multifamily rental housing due to legislative acts and omissions which incentivize rent gouging and repositioning practices. While a small minority of tenants have successfully challenged institutional landlord power through rent strikes, the vast majority are not organized due to a structural deficit within the movement. To address this, my project uses graphic design in both informative and evocative ways. The first approach targets political stakeholders and fixed-income tenants, using a systems map to problematize how repositioning practices perpetuate housing instability and suggest ways to mobilize for right-to-housing protection. The second approach aims to galvanize public support by showing how judicial systems mobilize on behalf of landlords. Drawing on litigation-focused tropes, I design works which reveal how legislation emboldens corporate landlords to create their own “letter of the law” to harass and displace tenants.Author owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.DesignPublic policyEconomics, LaborElectronic Thesis or Dissertation2025-07-23Designing resistanceTenant movement in CanadaCorporate landlord repositioning practicesState-sponsored corporate welfareRent strikesDirect actionAffordable multifamily rental housingAccumulation by dispossessionInformative systems mapPolitical graphics