Homelessness & Housing
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| Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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 NEW! Ending Homelessness in CanadaThe Case for Homelessness Prevention |
Homelessness is at critical levels. This book identifies the causes and offers ideas about what it will take to prevent Canadians from finding themselves without a roof over their head. More … | James Hughes | 186 | 2024 | View |
 Fight to WinInside Poor People’s Organizing |
AJ Withers draws on their own experiences as an organizer, extensive interviews with the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) activists and Toronto bureaucrats, and freedom of information … | A. J. Withers | 305 | 2021 | View |
 NEW! Resisting EvictionDomicide and the Financialization of Rental Housing |
Resisting Eviction centres tenant organizing in its investigation of gentrification, eviction and the financialization of rental housing. Andrew Crosby argues that racial discrimination, property … | Andrew Crosby | 188 | 2023 | View |
 NEW! The Tenant Class |
In this trailblazing manifesto, political economist Ricardo Tranjan places tenants and landlords on either side of the class divide that splits North American society. What if there is no housing … | Ricardo Tranjan | 145 | 2023 | View |
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From Fighting to WinPower and Poor People’s Organizing From: Fight to Win |
This chapter introduces Ontario Coalition Against Poverty’s mass mobilization strategies and individual casework as organizing principles. The role of casework as a dual activist strategy … | A. J. Withers | 22 | 2021 | $2.20 Add |
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From NEW! Preface and Introduction: What Didn’t Happen: The Case for Homelessness Prevention and A Framework for Homelessness Prevention |
Editor James Hughes discuss the rapid increase of homelessness since the covid-19 pandemic. through this he outlines the need for a book of this type, to stop focusing on how to treatment … | Erin Dej; James Hughes; Kaitlin Schwan; Stephen Gaetz | 30 | 2024 | $3.00 Add |
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From NEW! Revitalization and Settler Colonial “Improvement”From: Resisting Eviction |
In the introductory chapter of this book, Andrew Cosby describes the investigatory purpose of this book and maps out the content covered in the following chapters. | Andrew Crosby | 13 | 2023 | $1.30 Add |
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From NEW! 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 Privately Policing Public SpaceSt. James Park From: Fight to Win |
This chapter describes the brief successful campaign by OCAP against the private securitization and displacement of homeless people. The campaign challenged the moral and legal claims of the … | A. J. Withers | 33 | 2021 | $3.30 Add |
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From NEW! Tenants, a Social ClassFrom: The Tenant Class |
Ricardo discusses the socioeconomic characteristics of tenants in Canada and argues that they exist as an economically exploited social class. He examines the Canadian rental market by providing … | Ricardo Tranjan | 12 | 2023 | $1.20 Add |
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From NEW! The Racial Logics of PropertyFrom: Resisting Eviction |
In this chapter, Crosby begins by examining the origins and historical evolution of property relations in Canada’s national capital region, outlining some of the colonial tools deployed to … | Andrew Crosby | 10 | 2023 | $1.00 Add |
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From NEW! Domicide in the Liveable CityFrom: Resisting Eviction |
In this chapter, Crosby explores urban liveability and domicide, identifying liveability as an ideological discourse of urban improvement that is mobilized alongside gentrification efforts to … | Andrew Crosby | 11 | 2023 | $1.10 Add |
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From Stay TightDirect-Action Casework From: Fight to Win |
This chapter details the two distinct arms of Ontario Coalition Against Poverty: mass mobilization and case work, advocating within the larger trend of neoliberal cuts and downsizing. Successful … | A. J. Withers | 32 | 2021 | $3.20 Add |
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From NEW! Turning Off the TapPreventing 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 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 |
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From Fighting for Roofs and BedsHousing First From: Fight to Win |
In this chapter the author describes the efficacy and short-comings of a Housing First model for addressing homelessness. Given the background of neoliberalism, the author concludes that programs … | A. J. Withers | 30 | 2021 | $3.00 Add |
