Housing & Urban Development

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Confronting Financialization to Prevent Homelessness
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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
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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?
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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
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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
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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
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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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Cities for Women and Girls
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Cities for Women and Girls

From: 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. 7 $0.70 Add
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City of Fear

City of Fear

From: Feminist City

Kern highlights the gendered danger women are exposed to in cities and everyday life, and the costs of these threats. 27 $2.70 Add
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City of Friends

City of Friends

From: Feminist City

Kern highlights the importance of female friendship and how these relationships shape the way women engage with city life. 35 $3.50 Add
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City of Moms

City of Moms

From: Feminist City

Kern examines how the bodies of pregnant women change the way they are perceived in public. 37 $3.70 Add
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City of One

City of One

From: Feminist City

Kern explores how mobile digital technologies are essential feminist tools to urban survival. 31 $3.10 Add
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City of Possibility

City of Possibility

From: Feminist City

Kern briefly discusses the many projects and movements in an effort to create a feminist city. 13 $1.30 Add
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City of Protest

City of Protest

From: Feminist City

Kern examines how activism and public protest can connect women to cities and feminist politics. 30 $3.00 Add
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Conclusion

Conclusion

The 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. … 13 $1.30 Add
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Conjay’s First Walk Home
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Conjay’s First Walk Home

From: 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. 7 $0.70 Add
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Creating Affordable Housing in Real Neighbourhoods

Creating Affordable Housing in Real Neighbourhoods

From: 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 … 33 $3.30 Add