Displacement City: Fighting for Health and Homes in a Pandemic

Displacement City is a book that explores the experiences of homelessness, housing crisis, and responses to it during the pandemic, using prose, poetry, and photography to document lived experiences and provide insight into policies affecting Indigenous peoples.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 320 pages
Publication date: 22 November 2022
Publisher: University of Toronto Press

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.

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.

Weight: 500g
Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781487546496