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Displacement city : fighting for health and homes in a pandemic / edited by Greg Cook and Cathy Crowe.

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Aevo UTP, an imprint of University of Toronto Press, 2022.

362.1097135 D612

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- -- Social aspects -- Ontario -- Toronto.

Homelessness -- Ontario -- Toronto.

Homeless persons -- Services for -- Ontario -- Toronto.

Shelters for the homeless -- Ontario -- Toronto.

9781487546496 (pbk.)

xl, 280 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.

Greg Cook is an outreach worker at Sanctuary Toronto. He partners with many community groups to advocate for a more just society. He is on the steering committee of the Shelter and Housing Justice Network and volunteers for the Toronto Homeless Memorial. He has worked on two documentaries: Bursting at the Seams, about the shelter crisis, and What World Do You Live In, about police brutality.

Includes bibliographical references.

"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"--From publisher.

Cook, Greg (Outreach worker).

Crowe, Cathy, 1952-

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