Homelessness & Housing
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From  NEW! AbsenceFrom: Encampment |
Helwig describes the ever-changing environment of the encampment and details some hardships in her own personal life. She reiterates the importance of persevering and not losing faith. | Maggie Helwig | 20 | 2025 | $2.00 Add |
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From  NEW! Africville: An Historical OverviewFrom: The Spirit of Africville |
In this chapter, Donald Clairmont examines how Halifax’s discriminatory municipal policies severely impacted residents of Africville through years of administrative neglect and anti-Black bias. | Donald Clairmont | 22 | 2026 | $2.20 Add |
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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  Nordheimer Ravine and Glen Edyth/Roycroft Wetlands |
Naturalist Jason Ramsay-Brown describes Toronto’s Nordheimer Ravine, home to Glen Edyth & Roycroft wetlands and a thriving tradition of citizen stewardship. He uses Nordheimer to … | Jason Ramsay-Brown | 5 | 2020 | $0.50 Add |
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From NEW! DisappearanceFrom: Encampment |
Helwig discusses the disproportionate instances of missing person cases among the homeless population, highlighting a few cases in particular. | Maggie Helwig | 14 | 2025 | $1.40 Add |
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From  Domicide in the Liveable CityFrom: Resisting Eviction |
In this chapter, Crosby explores urban liveability and domicide, identifying liveability as an ideological discourse of urban improvement that is mobilized alongside gentrification efforts to … | Andrew Crosby | 11 | 2023 | $1.10 Add |
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NEW! EncampmentResistance, Grace, and an Unhoused Community |
Maggie Helwig shares what it’s like to advocate for the unhoused people who set up an encampment beside the Anglican church in Toronto’s Kensington Market, where she is the priest. It … | 202 | View | ||
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From  NEW! Encampment Evictions in Washington, DC |
In this chapter, Howe and Clarkk examine encampment evictions in Washington, DC, during 2020 and 2021. | Aaron Howe; Shannon Clark | 9 | 2025 | $0.90 Add |
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From NEW! FireFrom: Encampment |
Helwig describes how extreme cold alerts affect Toronto’s homeless population, including increased incidences of encampment fires. | Maggie Helwig | 18 | 2025 | $1.80 Add |
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From NEW! HereFrom: Encampment |
Helwig discusses the dehumanization of homeless people in the city of Toronto and the difficult circumstances under which they must survive, including the limitations of shelter and affordable … | Maggie Helwig | 18 | 2025 | $1.80 Add |
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From NEW! Housing and Home as Key Sites of Struggle |
In this chapter, Medvedeva examines the 2020 Minneapolis housing crisis, tracing how communal action challenged a housing system shaped by centuries of racialized policy. | Nina Medvedeva | 10 | 2025 | $1.00 Add |
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From NEW! LandFrom: Encampment |
Helwig outlines the many difficulties that the encampment at St. Stephen-in-the-Fields Church faced and continues to face. This includes complaints from neighbours, interference of City staffers … | Maggie Helwig | 18 | 2025 | $1.80 Add |
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From NEW! LawFrom: Encampment |
This chapter describes the city’s attempt to clear the encampment at St. Stephen-in-the-Fields Church in order for a community group to plant a garden on the site. | Maggie Helwig | 24 | 2025 | $2.40 Add |
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From NEW! Lawyers in the Housing Justice Movement |
In this chapter, the authors examine how public interest lawyers in Los Angeles partnered with tenant organizers from 2020 to 2023 to advance housing justice. | Faizah Malik; Greg Bonnett | 15 | 2025 | $1.50 Add |
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From NEW! Leveraging Land and Housing Ocuupations |
In this chapter, Ricketts and Herbert examine how grassroots housing occupations in Philadelphia during early 2020 advanced the rights of homeless mothers and children. | Amanda Ricketts; Claire Herbert | 9 | 2025 | $0.90 Add |
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From NEW! LossFrom: Encampment |
Helwig catalogues some of many occurrences of loss for those living on the street – from the loss of personal possessions to the loss of life, safety, friends, family, and loved ones. | Maggie Helwig | 23 | 2025 | $2.30 Add |
