Homelessness & Housing
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From  NEW! PlagueFrom: Encampment |
This chapter outlines COVID’s continued effect on Toronto’s homeless population and how it contributed to the growing number of encampments around the city. | Maggie Helwig | 32 | 2025 | $3.20 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  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  Research Methods and DesignFrom: Resisting Eviction |
In this chapter, Crosby provides a methodological blueprint for doing research with social movements. He describes his work with the Herongate Tenant Coalition as political activist ethnography, … | Andrew Crosby | 13 | 2023 | $1.30 Add |
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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 … | 188 | View | ||
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From 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 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! Tenant Organizing TodayFrom: The Tenant Class |
In this chapter, Ricardo examines the steps tenants can take to advocate for their rights. He discusses tenant unions, the power of organizing, and details various examples of grassroots tenant … | Ricardo Tranjan | 15 | 2023 | $1.50 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 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 The River We are InAnti-Poverty Struggle Continues From: Fight to Win |
This chapter summarizes the activist value of the power of disruption as the Ontario Coatilition Against Poverty, with a staff of two, contended with Toronto’s resources and staff of … | A. J. Withers | 17 | 2021 | $1.70 Add |
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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 NEW! WildernessFrom: Encampment |
This chapter explains the history of Toronto’s Kensington Market and the church, St. Stephen-in-the-Fields, that homes the encampment referred to throughout the book and for which Helwig is the priest. | Maggie Helwig | 12 | 2025 | $1.20 Add |
