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A Bed for the Night
The Struggle for Shelter
From: Fight to Win
$5.30
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 in spite of heavy initial resistance. Prognostic framing and diagnostic framing are described as tactics for messaging as well as opponent’s demobilization tactics and OCAP’s radical, anti-capitalist worldview.
Contributors
A. J. Withers
A. J. Withers organized with the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty for over 20 years, including as a paid organizer. They are the author of A Violent History of Benevolence: Interlocking Oppression in the Moral Economies of Social Working (with Chris Chapman) and Disability Politics and Theory and numerous other articles and book chapters. A. J. recently completed a PhD in social work at York University.
