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Join us for a hot breakfast on Friday morning, included in your full conference registration! Plenary Delivered by: Mapfumo Chidzonga.

Roots, Resilience, and the Work of Growing Home Together

At a moment of renewed attention to cooperative housing and intensified pressure within the broader housing system, Mapfumo invites you to reflect on what has allowed co op communities to endure and adapt across generations. Drawing on African wisdom, Canadian housing realities, and lived experience within community led systems, his talk explores why deep roots, strong governance, collective accountability, and genuine belonging are essential to sustainable growth. Consider renewed growth not as expansion for its own sake, but as a shared, intentional practice: growing homes, leaders, and policies that hold people together through change.