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Displacement City : Fighting for Health and Homes in a Pandemic.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cook, Greg.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--Social aspects--Ontario--Toronto.
- COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023.
- Homeless persons--Services for--Ontario--Toronto.
- Homeless persons.
- Homelessness--Ontario--Toronto.
- Homelessness.
- Housing--Ontario--Toronto.
- Housing.
- Shelters for the homeless--Ontario--Toronto.
- Shelters for the homeless.
- Ontario--Toronto.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (321 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2022.
- Summary:
- What can we learn from the COVID-19 pandemic and its devastating effects on the homeless population in Toronto? Displacement City shares the stories of frontline workers, advocates, and people living without homes during this unprecedented crisis.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Praise for Displacement City
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Pandemic Timeline
- We Will Remember
- Foreword
- Introduction
- PART I: WE ARE [NOT] IN THIS TOGETHER
- 1 Displaced Again and Again and Again
- 2 The Housing Crisis and the Indian Residential School Legacy
- 3 Inconvenient Bodies and Toronto's History of Displacement
- 4 Displaced There, Displaced Here
- 5 Dystopian Realities
- PART II: FIGHTING BACK
- 6 Responsibility Downloaded: How Drop-In Centres during the Pandemic
- 7 Surviving COVID-19 in the Shelter System
- 8 Social Murder: We Need More Than Band-Aids
- 9 Slipped through the Fingertips of the System
- 10 Report on Toronto: The Encampment Support Network
- 11 Wish You Were Still Here
- 12 Fighting Ableism (Disability Exists and So Do We)
- 13 Living and Dying on the Streets: Providing Palliative Care during a Pandemic
- 14 Building Tiny Homeless Shelters
- PART III: HOUSING IS A HUMAN RIGHT
- 15 In the Parks and in the Courts: The Legal Fight against Encampment Evictions
- 16 COVID Life
- 17 Two Metres: The Legal Challenge
- 18 Homelessness, Housing, and Human Rights Accountability
- POEM: THERE IS A DEVELOPMENT PROPOSED FOR THIS SITE
- Afterword
- Acknowledgments
- Notes.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Cook, Greg Displacement City
- ISBN:
- 1-4875-4651-3
- 1-4875-4650-5
- OCLC:
- 1329439899
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