Homelessness & Housing

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Acknowledgements; About the authors; Endnotes

Acknowledgements; About the authors; Endnotes

From: Ending Homelessness in Canada

This section contains the author’s acknowledgements, information about the contributors of this book, and the endnotes. 13 $1.30 Add
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Against Landlord Technology in San Francisco
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Against Landlord Technology in San Francisco

From: Dispatches from the Threshold

In this chapter, the authors examine how landlord technology in San Francisco, from the 1970s through the 2020s, accelerates gentrification and surveillance. ; 13 $1.30 Add
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Barons or Commoners?

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 … 57 $5.70 Add
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Confronting Financialization to Prevent Homelessness

Confronting Financialization to Prevent Homelessness

From: Ending Homelessness in Canada

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 … 12 $1.20 Add
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Turning Off the Tap: Preventing Homelessness for Victims of Violence

Turning Off the Tap: Preventing Homelessness for Victims of Violence

From: Ending Homelessness in Canada

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 … 15 $1.50 Add
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How Is Incarceration Generating Homelessness and What Can Be Done?

How Is Incarceration Generating Homelessness and What Can Be Done?

From: Ending Homelessness in Canada

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. 15 $1.50 Add
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Youth Homelessness: How to Prevent It

Youth Homelessness: How to Prevent It

From: Ending Homelessness in Canada

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 … 17 $1.70 Add
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Preventing Homelessness among People with Mental Illness

Preventing Homelessness among People with Mental Illness

From: Ending Homelessness in Canada

Chapter 5 tackles mental illness as it relates to homelessness. Examining the complex ways in which individuals with mental illness fall into homelessness and barriers that nonlinear or rational … 113 $11.30 Add
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How a Shelter Can Prevent Homelessness: Prevention Services at the Old Brewery Mission106

How a Shelter Can Prevent Homelessness: Prevention Services at the Old Brewery Mission106

From: Ending Homelessness in Canada

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, … 13 $1.30 Add
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Homelessness Prevention: An Anishinaabe Perspective

Homelessness Prevention: An Anishinaabe Perspective

From: Ending Homelessness in Canada

In Chapter 7 Marie McGregor Pitawanakwat offers an Indigenous perspective on homelessness, the concept of shelter, and the displacement from traditional lands that have exacerbated homelessness … 12 $1.20 Add
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The Namerind Story

The Namerind Story

From: Ending Homelessness in Canada

Robert Byers’ Chapter 8 follows his story of creating Indigenous owned affordable housing. Through his company he has been able to provide Indigenous focused affordable housing for member … 10 $1.00 Add
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Our Culture Is Our Code: How to Prevent Homelessness in the First Nation World

Our Culture Is Our Code: How to Prevent Homelessness in the First Nation World

From: Ending Homelessness in Canada

In chapter 9 Michale rice talk s about his decades of experience working within his community and along side others to transform the way reserves are run, turning them from dependant to … 17 $1.70 Add
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Conclusion: A Homelessness Prevention Agenda

Conclusion: A Homelessness Prevention Agenda

From: Ending Homelessness in Canada

In the conclusion James Hughes reiterates the need for systemic change to prevent homelessness. In his word " preventing homelessness requires the implementation of a range of diverse system … 11 $1.10 Add