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Book SynopsisWhat 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.
Trade Review"Anyone who visited downtown Toronto during the pandemic knows the devastating and powerful impact it had on the city’s homeless. Outreach worker Greg Cook and street nurse Cathy Crowe have a deep knowledge of the people behind the statistics and the headlines, and here create a better understanding of how policies affect people. In this powerful book, they have collected poetry, photography, essays that tell the stories of front-line workers, advocates, people who are unhoused. These include experiences living in the shelter system, displacement, the legacy of residential schools and the experience of the Indigenous population. A unique and powerful account." -- Deborah Dundas *
Toronto Star *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Foreword Introduction Cathy Crowe and Greg Cook Part I: We Are [Not] in This Together 1. “Displaced Again and Again and Again” Nikki Sutherland 2. The Housing Crisis and the Indian Residential School Legacy Blue Sky, Leaders from the Houseless Community, Sandra Campbell, and Leigh Kern 3. Inconvenient Bodies and Toronto’s History of Displacement Lorraine Lam and Greg Cook 4. Displaced There, Displaced Here Jenn McIntyre and Steve Meagher 5. Dystopian Realities Michael Eschbach Part II: Fighting Back 6. Responsibility Downloaded: How Drop-in Centres Stepped Up and Pushed Back during the Pandemic Diana McNally 7. Surviving COVID-19 in the Shelter System Brian Cleary 8. Social Murder: We Need More than Band Aids Roxie Danielson 9. Slipped through the Fingertips of the System? Greg Cook and Dredzz 10. The Toronto Encampment Support Network Fights Back Simone Schmidt with Photos by Jeff Bierk 11. Wish You Were Here Zoe Dodd 12. Fighting Ableism Jennifer Jewell Poem: Our Wilderness Zachary Grant 13. Palliative Care in a Pandemic Trevor McNally and Naheed Dosani Profile: Building Tiny Homeless Shelters Canadian Human Rights Commission Poem: Lord We Pray Zachary Grant Graphic by Michael D. Part III: COVID-19 in the Courts 14. In the Parks and in the Courts: The Legal Fight against Encampment Evictions A.J. Withers and Derrick Black 15. COVID-Life Sarah White 16. Two Metres Doug Johnson Hatlem, Noa Mendelsohn Aviv, and Geetha Philipupillai 17. Homelessness, Housing, and Human Rights Accountability Leilani Farha Poem: There Is a Development Proposed for This Site Zachary Grant Afterword Author Bios
