Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Pandemic Timeline xi
4. We Will Remember xxiii
5. Foreword xxxi
6. Introduction xxxvi
7. PART I: WE ARE [NOT] IN THIS TOGETHER
8. 1 Displaced Again and Again and Again 1
9. 2 The Housing Crisis and the Indian Residential School Legacy 7
10. 3 Inconvenient Bodies and Toronto’s History of Displacement 30
11. 4 Displaced There, Displaced Here 54
12. 5 Dystopian Realities 67
13. PART II: FIGHTING BACK
14. 6 Responsibility Downloaded: How Drop-In Centres Stepped Up and Pushed Back during the Pandemic 77
15. 7 Surviving COVID-19 in the Shelter System 98
16. 8 Social Murder: We Need More Than Band-Aids 106
17. 9 Slipped through the Fingertips of the System 122
18. 10 Report on Toronto: The Encampment Support Network 130
19. 11 Wish You Were Still Here 167
20. 12 Fighting Ableism (Disability Exists and So Do We) 181
21. Poem: Our Wilderness 187
22. 13 Living and Dying on the Streets: Providing Palliative Care during a Pandemic 189
23. 14 Building Tiny Homeless Shelters 202
24. Poem: Lord, We Pray 208
25. PART III: HOUSING IS A HUMAN RIGHT
26. 15 In the Parks and in the Courts: The Legal Fight against Encampment Evictions 209
27. 16 COVID Life 220
28. 17 Two Metres: The Legal Challenge 224
29. 18 Homelessness, Housing, and Human Rights Accountability 240
30. Poem: There Is a Development Proposed for This Site 257
31. Afterword 259
32. Acknowledgments 265
33. Notes 267