Displacement City

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Introduction
Cathy Crowe and Greg Cook

Part I: We Are [Not] in This Together

1. "Displaced Again and Again and Again"
Nikki Sutherland

2. The Housing Crisis and the Indian Residential School Legacy
Blue Sky, Leaders from the Houseless Community, Sandra Campbell, and Leigh Kern

3. Inconvenient Bodies and Toronto’s History of Displacement
Lorraine Lam and Greg Cook

4. Displaced There, Displaced Here
Jenn McIntyre and Steve Meagher

5. Dystopian Realities
Michael Eschbach

Part II: Fighting Back

6. Responsibility Downloaded: How Drop-in Centres Stepped Up and Pushed Back during the Pandemic
Diana McNally

7. Surviving COVID-19 in the Shelter System
Brian Cleary

8. Social Murder: We Need More than Band Aids
Roxie Danielson

9. Slipped through the Fingertips of the System?
Greg Cook and Dredzz

10. The Toronto Encampment Support Network Fights Back
Simone Schmidt with Photos by Jeff Bierk

11. Wish You Were Here
Zoe Dodd

12. Fighting Ableism
Jennifer Jewell

Poem: Our Wilderness
Zachary Grant

13. Palliative Care in a Pandemic
Trevor McNally and Naheed Dosani

Profile: Building Tiny Homeless Shelters
Canadian Human Rights Commission

Poem: Lord We Pray
Zachary Grant

Graphic by Michael D.

Part III: COVID-19 in the Courts

14. In the Parks and in the Courts: The Legal Fight against Encampment Evictions
A.J. Withers and Derrick Black

15. COVID-Life
Sarah White

16. Two Metres
Doug Johnson Hatlem, Noa Mendelsohn Aviv, and Geetha Philipupillai

17. Homelessness, Housing, and Human Rights Accountability
Leilani Farha

Poem: There Is a Development Proposed for This Site
Zachary Grant

Afterword

Author Bios