Title & Author:

Displacement city : fighting for health and homes in a pandemic / edited by Greg Cook and Cathy Crowe ; foreword by Robyn Maynard ; afterword by Shawn Micallef.

Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : Aevo UTP, an imprint of University of Toronto Press, [2022]
©2022

Description:

xl, 280 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
We are [not] in this together. Displaced again and again and again / Nikki Sutherland -- The housing crisis and the Indian residential school legacy / Blue Sky, leaders from the houseless community, Sandra Campbell, and Leigh Kern -- Inconvenient bodies and Toronto's history of displacement / Lorraine Lam and Greg Cook -- Displaced there, displaced here / Jenn McIntyre and Steve Meagher -- Dystopian realities / Michael Eschbach -- Fighting back. Responsibility downloaded : how drop-in centres stepped up and pushed back during the pandemic / Diana Chan McNally -- Surviving COVID-19 in the shelter system / Brian Cleary -- Social murder : we need more than band-aids / Roxie Danielson -- Slipped through the fingertips of the system / Dreddz and Greg Cook -- Report on Toronto : the encampment support network / words by Simone E. Schmidt, photos by Jeff Bierk -- Wish you were still here / Zoë Dodd -- Fighting ableism (disability exists and so do we) / Jennifer Jewell -- Poem : Our wilderness / Zachary Grant -- Living and dying on the streets : providing palliative care during a pandemic / Dr. Naheed Dosani and Dr. Trevor Morey -- Building tiny homeless shelters / the Canadian Human Rights Commission -- Poem : Lord, we pray -- Housing is a human right. In the parks and in the courts : the legal fight against encampment evictions / A.J. Withers and Derrick Black -- COVID life / Sarah White -- Two metres : the legal challenge / Noa Mendelsohn Aviv, Doug Johnson Hatlem, and Geetha Philipupillai -- Homelessness, housing, and human rights accountability / Leilani Farha -- Poem : There is a development for this site / Zachary Grant.
Issued also in electronic format.

Summary:

"Canada's major cities have faced the humanitarian disaster of homelessness for decades, but the COVID-19 pandemic laid bare a massive deficit in social programs and widespread inattention to human rights. Are municipal public services designed to essentially produce displacement? Or can we do something to end the growing problem of urban homelessness in Canada? In Displacement City, outreach worker Greg Cook and street nurse Cathy Crowe illuminate this infrastructure of displacement through prose, poetry, and photography. Contributors to the book, including those with lived experience of homelessness in Toronto, report on the realities of the situation and how people responded: by providing disaster-relief supplies and tiny shelters for encampments, by advocating for shelter-hotels where people could physically distance, by taking the city to court, and by rising up against encampment evictions. The book provides particular insight into policies affecting Indigenous peoples and how the legacy of colonialism and displacement reached a critical point during the pandemic. This collection of first-hand accounts shows how people are fighting back for homes. It also mourns the hundreds of preventable deaths that resulted from an unjust shelter system and the lack of a national housing program. Offering rich stories of care, mutual aid, and solidarity, Displacement City provides a vivid account of a national tragedy."-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781487546496 (paper)
1487546491 (paper)
(EPUB)
9781487546502
(PDF)
9781487546519

Subject:

Homelessness Ontario Toronto.
Homeless persons Services for Ontario Toronto.
Shelters for the homeless Ontario Toronto.
Housing Ontario Toronto.
COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- Social aspects Ontario Toronto.
Itinérance Ontario Toronto.
Personnes sans-abri Services Ontario Toronto.
Personnes sans-abri Logement Ontario Toronto.
Logement Ontario Toronto.
Pandémie de COVID-19, 2020- Aspect social Ontario Toronto.
Homeless persons Services for
Homelessness
Housing
Shelters for the homeless
Social aspects
Aboriginal Canadians Health Health services Ontario Toronto.
Aboriginal Canadians Economic conditions Ontario Toronto.
Aboriginal Canadians Social services Ontario Toronto.
Aboriginal Canadians Housing Ontario Toronto.
Ontario Toronto

Added entries:

Cook, Greg (Outreach worker), editor.
Crowe, Cathy, 1952- editor.
Micallef, Shawn, 1974- writer if afterword.
Maynard, Robyn, writer of foreword.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 316778
Call No.: 316778
Copy: 1
Status: Available