- An Action a Day
Keeps Global Capitalism Away Resource Type: Book Published: 2004
- All Our Sisters
Stories of Homeless Women in Canada Resource Type: Book Published: 2007 The author conducted sixty interviews with homeless women from Vancouver to Ottawa. This investigative reporter has organized the interviews in chapters dealing with the impact of housing policies, violence, addictions, and health in the lives of these women.
- America's hidden homeless: Life in the Starlight Motel
Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 A motel in Massachusetts reveals the extent of the US' hidden homelessness problem. Residents share their stories.
- Approaches to Skid Row: Rosewater? Rehabilitation? Radical Renewal?
Notes on the Conference of December 3, 4, 5, 1974 Resource Type: Article Published: 1975 Report of the first National Conference of the Skid Row National Coalition.
- Beyond Homelessness
Christian Faith in a Culture of Displacement Resource Type: Book Published: 2008 Beyond Homelessness looks at the socioeconomic, ecological and spiritual dimensions of homelessness. Going further than seeing housing as being bricks and mortar the authors see it as a search for belonging, identity and security. They argue that if we see the world as holy instead of earth as home and we understand the Gospels, faith will heal the disharmony in which we have mired ourselves.
- Birdie
Resource Type: Film/Video Published: 2015 Birdie, who sleeps in trees and sells fruits and vegetables on the streets of Rio de Janeiro, loves the two abandoned dogs he now lives with. In Heloisa Passos' film, Birdie reads the minds of his two best canine friends.
- Canadian Federation of University Women
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Pilot Copy, February 1976 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1976 The first issue of the Canadian Information Sharing Service publication. The name of the publication was later changed to Connexions and then to Connexions Digest.
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 1, Number 2 - July 1976 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1976
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 2, Number 1 - May 1977 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1977
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 3, Number 1 - February 1978 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1978
- The Canadian Safe School Network (CSSN)
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- City slides into skid row
Resource Type: Article Published: 1977 Perhaps some city planners and alderpersons are finally starting to take a serious look at Torontos skid row areas and the people struggling to survive in them. And just perhaps, theyll come up with some solid and humane proposals which will get translated into action.
- Connexions
Volume 4, Number 1 - February 1979 - National Security/Securite Nationale Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1979
- Connexions
Volume 4, Number 5 - October 1979 - Nuclear Energy\Energie Nucleaire Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1979
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 2 - April 1981 - Urban Core/Milieu Urbain Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1981
- Connexions
Volume 7, Number 4 - December 1982 - Housing Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1982
- Connexions
Volume 9, Number 2 - Summer 1984 - Rights and Liberties - A Digest of Resources & Groups for Social Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1984
- Connexions
Volume 9, Number 3 - Fall 1984 - Housing - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1984
- Connexions Digest
Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1989
- Connexions Library: Community & Urban Focus
Resource Type: Website Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on community and urban issues.
- Covenant House
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Death becomes rallying cry
Resource Type: Article Published: 2008 Paul Croutch, a homeless man who was beaten to death by army reservists was remembered by his friends yesterday at the same spot he lost his life three years ago.
- Disaster and Mental Health
The Palestinian Experience Resource Type: Article Published: 2005 The continuing Israeli military occupation of Gaza is the cause of deep and widespread trauma for Palestinian children and adults.
- Don Weitz in conversation with Ulli Diemer
Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 Activist Don Weitz interviewed by Ulli Diemer, December 8, 2016.
- Dossier Homme Seul Itinerant
Resource Type: Article Published: 1974 Theoretical base for organising and educative effort with single itinerant men in Montreal.
- Down and Out in Paris and London
Resource Type: Book Published: 1969 Life near the bottom in France and England in the early 1930s.
- Dying For A Home
Homeless Activists Speak Out Resource Type: Book Published: 2007 This is a veteran Toronto street nurse's account of her work with homeless activists from Tent City as well as the stories of Tent City residents.
- Fundraising Walk on August 14 Benefits Homeless Women in Crisis at St. Clare Inn in Toronto
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2010 Linda#s Walk, 5k Fundraising Walk to help homeless women rebuild their lives, Saturday, August 14, 2010, 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m, St. Bonaventure Church, 1300 Leslie Street, Toronto. Walk 5k to support St. Clare Inn; an alternative for homeless women
- Homeless
The Motel Kids of Orange County Resource Type: Film Published: 2010 Follows a group of children as their families struggle to live survive in one of the country's wealthiest areas.
- Homeless in America
Throw Them Out With the Trash Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 What the Occupy Wall Streeters are beginning to discover, and homeless people have known all along, is that most ordinary, biologically necessary activities are illegal when performed in American streets not just peeing, but sitting, lying down, and sleeping.
- Homelessness, Health Care and Welfare Provision
Resource Type: Book Drawing on their extensive background in working with the homeless in East London, the editors look at the subject from different perspectives. There are chapters on mental heath, substance abuse, youth homelessness and an analysis of differing models for providing care. Two of the major themes running though the book are: that the homeless have the right to equal access to health care and that only when their needs for affordable housing are met will their health greatly improve.
- Hostels and Homelessness
Resource Type: Article Published: 1984
- Houses and Homes
Housing for Canadians Resource Type: Book Published: 1994 Canadians need access to sound housing in decent neighborhoods, writes author Sewell. And in order to achieve this, all ideoligical freight is to be jettisoned and deliver nothing but the straight goods. One solution is to build diverse neighborhoods and abolish the many building and planning codes that suppress the creation of affordable housing.
- How Dogs Forge a Bond with Rio's Homeless That Is Life-Saving for Both
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Homelessness in Rio is, in many ways, virtually identical to how it manifests in other large cities: it entails unimaginable material and emotional deprivation, hopelessness, societal invisibility, and utter isolation. But one aspect of Rio's homeless population stands out: A huge number of them have dogs that were previously living as desperate, unwanted strays on the street.
- Julia Tuttle Causeway sex offender colony
Wikipedia article Resource Type: Article The Julia Tuttle Causeway sex offender colony (also called "Bookville" by former residents) was an encampment of banished, registered sex offenders who were living beneath the Julia Tuttle Causeway -- a highway in Miami, Florida, USA -- from 2006 to April 2010.
- Local Places In the Age of the Global City
Resource Type: Book Published: 1996 The contributors to Local Places look at the complex social, economic and political contexts of cities in the 1990s and suggest that cities and urbanity, while part of the problem, also need to be considered as part of the solution.
- A Model of Theological Reflection
Resource Type: Article Published: 1976 Training document to organise analysis of the conditions that foster the existence of skid row.
- National Skid Row Coalition Conference, Vancouver May 12-15, 1975
Resource Type: Article Published: 1975 Description of conference with reflections on implications for Calgary.
- No Fixed Address: The Housing crisis in Canada
Resource Type: Article Published: 1982 What can we do about the present housing crisis? This the slide show suggests that "Those of us who feel we have a right to decent, affordable housing will want to examine alternatives and look at new initiatives."
- No Land! No House! No Vote! Voices from Symphony Way
Voices from Symphony Way Resource Type: Book Published: 2011 Accounts from Symphony Way pavement dwellers, joined together in an anti-eviction campaign, living in shacks insisting that the government provide permanent housing.
- Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Report on Services to Homeless Men: Working Paper
Resource Type: Article Published: 1980 It is estimated that there are between 50 and 300 "homeless" men in the city of Halifax.
- Report on the Conference; Vancouver 1975
May 12-13, 1975 Resource Type: Article Published: 1975 Conference on stategies used on Skid Row, focusing on Vancouver organisations.
- Sources welcomes Michael Riordon
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2010 Sources welcomes a new member: Michael Riordon. Canadian writer and documentary-maker Michael Riordon writes/directs/produces books and articles, audio, video and film documentaries, plays for radio and stage.
- Squatters are not home stealers
Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 The criminalising of squatters in Britain is part of a Europe-wide backlash. But with at least 10% of the world population squatting, can they really be a menace to society?
- Theological Reflection Re: Skid Row
Resource Type: Article Published: 1976 Reflection on the conditions that foster the existence of Skid Rows in Canada.
- Toronto's Poor
A Rebellious History Resource Type: Book Published: 2916 Torontos Poor reveals the long and too often forgotten history of poor peoples resistance. It details how the homeless, the unemployed, and the destitute have struggled to survive and secure food and shelter in the wake of the many panics, downturns, recessions, and depressions that punctuate the years from the 1830s to the present.
- An Unauthorized Biography of the World
Oral History on the Front Lines Resource Type: Book Published: 2004 This book uses oral history to discuss oral history. It is in memoir style, and delves into how oral history is done in such places as First Nations (Canada), Turkey, Chicago, Newfoundland, Peru, New York City, Cleveland, Israel, and other places. Riordon's concept is about telling stories, celebrating diversity, and making connections between people.
- Under the Viaduct
Homeless in Beautiful B.C. Resource Type: Book Published: 1991 The author, through interviews, gives a collection of testimonials of Vancouver's homeless and strategies to combat this social problem.
- Urban core support network annual conference 1982:
The disappearance of affordable housing for people on the margins Resource Type: Article Published: 1982 The 1982 Conference of the Urban Core Support Network, held in Toronto in October, focused on the disappearance of affordable housing.
- The War at Home
An Intimate Portrait of Canada's Poor Resource Type: Book Published: 1999
- What A.G.A.I.N.?
Resource Type: Article Published: 1975 Adequate Guaranteed Annual Income and Skid Row.
- Who Killed Grace Bates...?
Resource Type: Article Published: 1976 Grace Bates, a long-time resident of Cabbagetown, was 63 years of age when she died in the early morning of July 19 [1976] at Nellies Hostel on Broadview. She had been taken to Nellies Hostel the previous night by a Hostel volunteer after an anonymous phone call stated that she had spent the three previous days and nights alone in wheel chair in Allan Gardens. As a result of the media publicity on her death, an inquest was held.
- Women on "Skid Row"
A Proposal for a Shelter for Alcoholic and Homeless Women in Montreal Resource Type: Article Published: 1976 A proposal written to funding bodies requesting financial assistance in setting up a women's shelter in Montreal.
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