Homelessness & Housing
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From  Demoviction 2016: Domicide and Redevelopment in Heron GateFrom: Resisting Eviction |
Chapter 7 examines the first phase of eviction and demolition in Heron Gate in 2016. Crosby analyzes some of the discourses surrounding demoviction, such as revitalization, relocation, and … | Andrew Crosby | 16 | 2023 | $1.60 Add |
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From Demoviction 2018: Tenant Resistance to DomicideFrom: Resisting Eviction |
Chapter 8 documents the second phase of demoviction in 2018 and the emergence of the Herongate Tenant Coalition to try and stop the evictions. Crosby explores a number of coalition tactics … | Andrew Crosby | 19 | 2023 | $1.90 Add |
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From  NEW! DisappearanceFrom: Encampment |
Helwig discusses the disproportionate instances of missing person cases among the homeless population, highlighting a few cases in particular. | Maggie Helwig | 14 | 2025 | $1.40 Add |
 NEW! Dispatches from the ThresholdTenant Power in Times of Crisis |
Housing insecurity turned catastrophic during the COVID-19 pandemic, exposing the cruelty of threadbare tenant protections and state hostility toward unhoused people made worse by mass … | Alexander Ferrer; Rae Baker | 238 | 2025 | View |
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From 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 NEW! Easter Homily, 2018From: Encampment |
In this chapter Helwig urges the reader to overcome things such as power, greed, fear, in order to maintain hope within, and bear witness to, our difficult world. | Maggie Helwig | 5 | 2025 | $0.50 Add |
EncampmentResistance, Grace, and an Unhoused Community |
Maggie Helwig shares what it’s like to advocate for the unhoused people who set up an encampment beside the Anglican church in Toronto’s Kensington Market, where she is the priest. It … | Maggie Helwig | 202 | 2025 | View |
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From NEW! Encampment Evictions in Washington, DC |
In this chapter, Howe and Clarkk examine encampment evictions in Washington, DC, during 2020 and 2021. | Aaron Howe; Shannon Clark | 9 | 2025 | $0.90 Add |
 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 |
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From Fighting for Roofs and Beds: Housing FirstFrom: 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 |
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From Fighting to Win: Power and Poor People’s OrganizingFrom: 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! FireFrom: Encampment |
Helwig describes how extreme cold alerts affect Toronto’s homeless population, including increased incidences of encampment fires. | Maggie Helwig | 18 | 2025 | $1.80 Add |
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From NEW! Foreword |
In this foreword, Stein introduces the collection and how it documents housing justice organizing amid various crises of the twenty-first century. | Samuel Stein | 2 | 2025 | $0.20 Add |
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From  Grassroots and Politics in WinnipegFrom: Lloyd Axelworthy |
In this chapter, Axworthy discusses two episodes in early-1970s Winnipeg: the People’s Committee for a Better Neighbourhood’s successful 1971 relocation of a low-cost apartment block, … | Lloyd Axelworthy | 12 | 2024 | $1.20 Add |
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From NEW! HereFrom: Encampment |
Helwig discusses the dehumanization of homeless people in the city of Toronto and the difficult circumstances under which they must survive, including the limitations of shelter and affordable … | Maggie Helwig | 18 | 2025 | $1.80 Add |
