Displacement City by Greg Cook & Cathy Crowe

Author:Greg Cook & Cathy Crowe
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: LCSH: Homelessness – Ontario – Toronto. | LCSH: Homeless persons – Services for – Ontario – Toronto., LCSH: Shelters for the homeless – Ontario –Toronto., LCSH: Housing – Ontario – Toronto., LCSH: COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020– Social aspects – Ontario – Toronto
Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Dreddz in Alexandra Park.

Credit: Ginger Dean

DREDDZ is an advocate for the streets and an anti-poverty and anti-suffering activist.

GREG COOK is a white settler who has been a drop-in and outreach worker in downtown Toronto for over twelve years, and at Sanctuary since 2009. Greg partners with community groups and agencies to agitate for a more just and equitable society.

chapter 10

Report on Toronto: The Encampment Support Network

Words by Simone E. Schmidt, photos by Jeff Bierk

As I write this in early November 2021, Toronto is still reeling from the militarized encampment evictions at Trinity Bellwoods, Alexandra Park, and Lamport Stadium. Media has focused on police violence at the evictions rather than the ongoing housing crisis or daily police violence towards unhoused people living in encampments. This chapter will focus on the City’s other strategies to evict encampments from May 2020 to May 2021, and the way in which the Encampment Support Network (ESN), a volunteer group of over 180 people, pushed back through a combination of mutual aid, public education, art, and direct action. This account is necessarily partial given the wide range of perspectives held by a group so big and the limitation on the word count. I have also underemphasized information that is inextricably linked to encampments but will be covered in other chapters of this book, namely the overdose crisis and the shelter-hotels. Thank you to AK, Amie Tsang, Andrew X, Anthony Brown, Derrick Black, Domenico Saxida, Ginger Dean, Les Harper, Zoë Dodd, Nichole Leveck, Jeff Bierk, Marcel North Gallant, Jesse Crowe, Nathan Doucet, and Lil Man, all who contributed to this chapter in the form of interviews or notes.

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