Housing & Urban Development
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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 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! How Is Incarceration Generating Homelessness and What Can Be Done? |
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. | Art Campbell | 15 | 2024 | $1.50 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 NEW! Preventing Homelessness among People with Mental Illness |
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 … | Eric Latimer | 113 | 2024 | $11.30 Add |
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From NEW! How a Shelter Can Prevent HomelessnessPrevention Services at the Old Brewery Mission106 |
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, … | Georges Ohana | 13 | 2024 | $1.30 Add |
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From  NEW! Cities for Women and GirlsFrom: Messy Cities |
ElsaMarie D’Silva writes about the danger that crowded public spaces and transport potentially hold for female bodies, and that the chaotic nature of urban life can endanger vulnerable targets further. | Dylan Reid | 7 | 2025 | $0.70 Add |
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From  City of FearFrom: Feminist City |
Kern highlights the gendered danger women are exposed to in cities and everyday life, and the costs of these threats. | Leslie Kern | 27 | 2019 | $2.70 Add |
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From City of FriendsFrom: Feminist City |
Kern highlights the importance of female friendship and how these relationships shape the way women engage with city life. | Leslie Kern | 35 | 2019 | $3.50 Add |
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From City of MomsFrom: Feminist City |
Kern examines how the bodies of pregnant women change the way they are perceived in public. | Leslie Kern | 37 | 2019 | $3.70 Add |
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From City of OneFrom: Feminist City |
Kern explores how mobile digital technologies are essential feminist tools to urban survival. | Leslie Kern | 31 | 2019 | $3.10 Add |
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From City of PossibilityFrom: Feminist City |
Kern briefly discusses the many projects and movements in an effort to create a feminist city. | Leslie Kern | 13 | 2019 | $1.30 Add |
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From City of ProtestFrom: Feminist City |
Kern examines how activism and public protest can connect women to cities and feminist politics. | Leslie Kern | 30 | 2019 | $3.00 Add |
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From  ConclusionThe Way Forward for Homeless Shelters in Canada From: Beyond Shelters |
Analyzes how the diversity of the shelterscape in Canada offers homeless people the right door into the services and programs they may need to exit homelessness in the shortest time possible. … | James Hughes | 13 | $1.30 Add | |
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From NEW! Conjay’s First Walk HomeFrom: Messy Cities |
Tura Cousins Wilson and Shane Laptiste explore Little Jamaica in Toronto’s historic Caribbean community, and trace its history from the 1960’s to its imagined future in 2035. | Dylan Reid | 7 | 2025 | $0.70 Add |
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From  Creating Affordable Housing in Real NeighbourhoodsFrom: How We Changed Toronto |
1970s. One of the very significant actions of the new Council was to embark on an affordable housing program. This resulted in thousands of affordable units being built by Council’s housing … | John Sewell | 33 | 2015 | $3.30 Add |
