Homelessness & Housing
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From  A Bed for the Night: The Struggle for ShelterFrom: Fight to Win |
In 2017/2018 Ontario Coalition Against Poverty witnessed the greatest crisis in homelessness in 3 decades. This chapter describes a successful campaign to increase Toronto shelter beds by 1,000 … | A. J. Withers | 53 | 2021 | $5.30 Add |
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From  NEW! A Changing Chinatown: On Gentrification and ResilienceFrom: White Riot |
In this chapter, Ma explores Vancouver’s Chinatown: its history, the impact of gentrification and new urban developments, and the resilience of its community members. | Melody 馬勻雅 Ma | 8 | 2023 | $0.80 Add |
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From  NEW! A History of StruggleFrom: The Tenant Class |
Ricardo examines the history of social movements pushed forward by tenants in Canada. Ricardo examines how colonialism and the renter vs. landlord dynamic are intertwined. | Ricardo Tranjan | 29 | 2023 | $2.90 Add |
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From  NEW! AbsenceFrom: Encampment |
Helwig describes the ever-changing environment of the encampment and details some hardships in her own personal life. She reiterates the importance of persevering and not losing faith. | Maggie Helwig | 20 | 2025 | $2.00 Add |
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From  NEW! Accelerating the Future Readiness of Business and Society in the New Normal World of Constant ChangeFrom: The New Sustainability Edge: Redefining Business from Startups to Industry Leaders |
In this chapter, Glanville explores how organizations can prepare for a world of constant change, weaving together the climate crisis, housing affordability, food insecurity, and the … | Yasmin Glanville | 27 | 2025 | $2.70 Add |
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From NEW! An Urban Rights Praxis of Remaining In Vancouver’s Downtown EastsideFrom: White Riot |
This chapter provides historical background of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES) and discusses its importance as an affordable neighborhood amidst gentrification and a rampant housing crisis. | Aaron Franks; Audrey Kobayashi; Jeffrey R. Masuda; the Right to Remain Research Collective; Trevor Wideman | 12 | 2023 | $1.20 Add |
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From  Barons or Commoners?From: The Age of Insecurity |
In this chapter, Taylor traces the relationship between negative and positive rights, from the Magna Carta and Charter of the Forest in 1215 and 1217 to the 1982 Canadian Charter of Rights and … | Astra Taylor | 57 | 2023 | $5.70 Add |
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From  NEW! Building Tenant Power Out of Crisis |
In this chapter, the authors examine how Atlanta’s Housing Justice League navigated the 2020 pandemic and racial uprisings to build tenant power. | Dani Aiello; Karmiah Dillard-Mickey; Natalie McLaughlin | 9 | 2025 | $0.90 Add |
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From NEW! But What about the LandlordsFrom: The Tenant Class |
In this chapter, Ricardo responds to the misconception that the current housing climate has put landlords in jeopardy. Ricardo examines the differences and similarities between private rental … | Ricardo Tranjan | 13 | 2023 | $1.30 Add |
 Caught in the Eye of the Storm: Urban Revitalization in Toronto’s Lawrence Heights |
The global housing crisis is reshaping everything, everywhere. The city of Toronto has come to be recognized worldwide as an iconic epicenter of unaffordability, a place where prices soar and … | John Careless | 192 | 2024 | View |
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From  Confronting Financialization to Prevent Homelessness |
In this chapter, Katlin Schwan asks us to consider how financialization, specifically the financialization of housing is contributing to the homelessness epidemic. Increasing rental prices, the … | Kaitlin Schwan | 12 | 2024 | $1.20 Add |
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From Turning Off the Tap: Preventing Homelessness for Victims of Violence |
Chapter Two discusses the pipeline for victims of intimate partner violence into homelessness. Author Pearl Eliadis discusses the lack of second stage housing, emergency housing, the need for … | Pearl Eliadis | 15 | 2024 | $1.50 Add |
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From How Is Incarceration Generating Homelessness and What Can Be Done? |
In this chapter, Art Campbell examines how incarceration leads to homelessness. By speaking with experts, using case studies and studying solutions he offers strategies to prevent this. | Art Campbell | 15 | 2024 | $1.50 Add |
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From Youth Homelessness: How to Prevent It |
in this chapter author Cécile Arbaud looks at the many factors that lead to youth becoming homeless. Youth in care, youth experiencing mental health crises and their complex factors provide … | Cécile Arbaud | 17 | 2024 | $1.70 Add |
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From How a Shelter Can Prevent Homelessness: Prevention Services at the Old Brewery Mission106 |
George Ohana’s Chapter on shelters looks at how current shelters can adapt and evolves to offer solutions to end homelessness instead of just treating the symptoms. By looking at policy, … | Georges Ohana | 13 | 2024 | $1.30 Add |
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From  Community Wellbeing: A Social Framework for DomicideFrom: Resisting Eviction |
Chapter 9 continues a chronological trajectory documenting the wider struggle and events unfolding around the redevelopment proposal for the neighbourhood. Crosby provides a window into the … | Andrew Crosby | 27 | 2023 | $2.70 Add |
