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Displacement City

Fighting for Health and Homes in a Pandemic

Greg Cook author Cathy Crowe author Greg Cook editor Cathy Crowe editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University of Toronto Press

Published:22nd Nov '22

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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.

"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
  • Winner of 2023 Next Generation Indie Book Award for Social Justice awarded by Foreword Reviews 2023 (United States)

ISBN: 9781487546496

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm

Weight: 500g

320 pages