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 |
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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 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  From Protection to ExpulsionA Critical Examination of Aging Out of Care |
Topics in this chapter include: a discussion of adverse outcomes of youth aging out of care, with sections focussing specifically on the experiences of Indigenous, LGBTQ2S+, Immigrant, and … | Jennifer Fallis; Kendra Nixon | 20 | 2020 | $2.00 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 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 |
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From A Bed for the NightThe Struggle for Shelter From: 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! Youth HomelessnessHow 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 In the Streets, in the Parks and in the CourtsFighting Bulldozer Diplomacy From: Fight to Win |
The impact of Covid-19 on homeless people is discussed, along with how defunding the police and decarceration entered public discourse. Issues with overcrowded and full shelters and shelter … | A. J. Withers | 25 | 2021 | $2.50 Add |
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From  NEW! Structural Social Work with Indigenous Peoples and HomelessnessSection 2: Structural Social Work |
This chapter argues that structural social work theory could be used to combat the issue of homelessness and specifically help homeless Indigenous people. The authors were part of a research team … | Carol Kauppi; Michael Hankard | 21 | 2022 | $2.10 Add |
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From Structural Violence in the Lives of Youth Experiencing Homelessness |
Topics in this chapter include a discussion of issues in the current justice system with regard to how homeless youth are treated, as well as the harms that come from working with an aim of … | Abe Oudshoorn; Jessica Justrabo | 17 | 2020 | $1.70 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 |
