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Displacement City

Fighting for Health and Homes in a Pandemic
By:Cathy Crowe; Greg Cook
Publisher:University of Toronto Press
Print ISBN:9781487546496
eText ISBN:9781487546502
Edition:1
Copyright:2022
Format:Reflowable

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In Displacement City, outreach worker Greg Cook and street nurse Cathy Crowe present the stories of frontline workers, advocates, and people living without homes during the pandemic. The book uses prose, poetry, and photography to document lived experiences of homelessness, responses to the housing crisis, efforts to fight back for homes, and possible solutions to move Toronto forward. Contributors provide particular insight into policies affecting Indigenous peoples and how the legacy of colonialism and displacement reached a critical point during the pandemic. Offering rich stories of care, mutual aid, and solidarity, Displacement City provides a vivid account of a humanitarian disaster.