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Fighting for Roofs and Beds
Housing First
From: Fight to Win
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In this chapter the author describes the efficacy and short-comings of a Housing First model for addressing homelessness. Given the background of neoliberalism, the author concludes that programs like Housing First have had a harmful impact on homelessness. Ontario Coalition Against Poverty and Toronto Alliance to End Homelessness are contrasted, with the conclusion that TAER shares some characteristics of an astroturf organization, ignoring the root causes of homelessness and often pathologizing homeless people.
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.
