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