Disaster through Dirty Windshields Law, Order and Toronto's Squeegee Kids

Parnaby, Patrick

doi:10.2307/3341925

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“…83 And the number of known homeless people dying on the streets of Toronto increased quite dramatically after 1998, dwarfing the number of known fatalities in the late 1980s. 84 In addition to neo-liberal welfare state reform, many of the reasons for the continued crisis of homelessness were the same as in the 1980s, linked to the uneven effects of urban restructuring, including continued post-Fordist occupational change, the further spread of gentrification, and the construction by developers of condominiums instead of rental units.…”

Section: Homelessness and Urban Restructuring In The 1990smentioning

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Urban Restructuring, Homelessness, and Collective Action in Toronto, 1980–2003

Greene¹

2015

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This article explores the links between urban restructuring, homelessness, and collective action in Toronto in the 1980s and 1990s. In Toronto, as elsewhere, urban restructuring at this time comprised a series of interconnected political-economic and spatial shifts, including economic and occupation change, gentrification, neo-liberal welfare state reform, and urban entrepreneurialism. Jointly, these political-economic shifts were implicated in the production and consolidation of new forms of socio-spatial polarization and segregation that dramatically changed the landscape of urban poverty. One of the most visible manifestations of the uneven effects of restructuring was the emergence and consolidation of mass homelessness. This changing landscape of poverty, in turn, produced a new landscape of political activism. It is this contested landscape that I explore in this article through a focus on homelessness as a primary mobilizing issue in opposition to restructuring during this key period in Toronto’s transition into a second-tier world city. I argue that urban restructuring, homelessness, and the dynamics of collective action were linked in two important ways. First, collective advocates and activists defined the crisis of homelessness as a direct effect of urban restructuring; in this way collective action mobilized to defend the interests of homeless people was simultaneously a collective struggle to contest urban restructuring. Second, the politics of restructuring directly informed the dynamics of collective action over time, influencing their organizational, strategic, and tactical dimensions.

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Section: Homelessness and Urban Restructuring In The 1990smentioning

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Urban Restructuring, Homelessness, and Collective Action in Toronto, 1980–2003

Greene¹

2015

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“…Il en est résulté de multiples plans d'action et de nombreuses promesses de la part de partis politiques. Cette réaction a été alimentée par des soucis au plan de la sécurité publique soulevés par ces jeunes mendiants ou ces squeegees 6 qui occupent l'espace public et par une volonté de les réinsérer rapidement au marché du travail (Parnaby, 2003). Ces représentations semblent sous-tendre les trois politiques canadiennes qui retiennent notre attention : la Stratégie des partenariats de lutte contre l'itinérance (SPLI) du gouvernement canadien (2011)(2012)(2013)(2014) .…”

Section: Trois Stratégies Politiques Pour Contrer L'itinéranceunclassified

Les personnes âgées itinérantes — invisibles et exclues. Une analyse de trois stratégies pour contrer l’itinérance

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Lavoie

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En se basant sur le concept d’exclusion sociale, cet article soutient que le paradigme de l’État d’investissement social de même que l’accent mis par les politiques sur le vieillissement actif contribuent à l’exclusion des personnes âgées itinérantes (PAI) tant dans les politiques, les pratiques que la recherche. S’appuyant sur trois politiques et plans d’action sur l’itinérance émanant des gouvernements fédéral (canadien), provincial (québécois) et municipal (la Ville de Montréal), cet article montre comment l’exclusion des PAI se manifeste dans ces stratégies. Enfin, cet article démontre le besoin de reconnaître les multiples exclusions des PAI et conclut sur un appel à différents acteurs afin qu’ils adoptent une posture critique face aux discours et aux modèles normatifs qui concourent à l’exclusion de cette population.

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“…As a result, more and more people became aware of the growing crisis, leading to more news coverage of the issue and demands for politicians to do something, anything. "Moral panics" about squeegeeers and panhandlers began to be played out in the media in cities like Toronto and Montreal, where this highly visible form of poverty became framed as a noticeable manifestation of urban decay [13,14]. Homeless squeegeers and panhandlers were often depicted as dangerous and bad individuals avoiding real work (reminiscent of 19 th century concerns about 'street urchins') and as a threat to downtown businesses, tourism and urban life in general decay [13][14][15].…”

Section: The Emergence Of Homelessness As a Problem In Canadamentioning

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[The Future of Homeless Services: A Paradigm Shift? (Guest Editor: Ellen L. Bassuk)]

Gaetz¹

2010

TOHSPJ

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Abstract:The current Canadian response to homelessness focuses on prevention, rapid transition out of homelessness, and the provision of emergency services. However, until the structural conditions that create and perpetuate homelessness are addressed, efforts to end homelessness will be limited at best. In this editorial, the director of the Canadian Homelessness Research Network and the Homeless Hub proposes key steps toward developing a more comprehensive approach to ending homelessness in Canada.

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Disaster through Dirty Windshields Law, Order and Toronto's Squeegee Kids

Cited by 28 publications

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Urban Restructuring, Homelessness, and Collective Action in Toronto, 1980–2003

Urban Restructuring, Homelessness, and Collective Action in Toronto, 1980–2003

Les personnes âgées itinérantes — invisibles et exclues. Une analyse de trois stratégies pour contrer l’itinérance

[The Future of Homeless Services: A Paradigm Shift? (Guest Editor: Ellen L. Bassuk)]

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