Home Spaces and Rights to the City: Thinking Social Justice for Chronically Homeless Women

Searching for safe space: the absent presence of childhood sexual abuse in human geography

“…Passing reference has been made by geographers to the over-representation of CSA survivors amongst women in penal systems (Allspach 2010;Schliehe 2013), amongst homeless women and men Radley et al 2006;Whitzman 2006;Klodawsky 2006Klodawsky , 2009Christensen 2012;Hodgetts et al 2012;Fotheringham et al 2013) and missing persons (Parr and Fyfe 2013). Geographers have also begun to recognise that for children, being spatially marginalised can increase the risk of being sexually abused (Hanlon and Shankar 2000;Young and Barrett 2001;Peters 2006;Neumayer and Plumper 2007;Meth, 2013;Tutu 2013;Licona and Maldonado 2013).…”

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

“…ancrée dans un climat socioéconomique qui valorise l'indépendance et la productivité, cette approche du HF suppose que déplacer la personne itinérante directement de la rue ou du refuge à un appartement conventionnel lui permettra de devenir auto-suffisante, indépendante, ou de le redevenir, et, éventuellement, de se réinsérer dans le marché du travail (Klodawsky, 2009 Le relogement des PaI requérant des soins rencontre également un obstacle supplémentaire : elles sont souvent exclues des services géron-tologiques à cause de leur consommation d'alcool ou de leurs problèmes de comportement (Crane et Warnes, 2007). Vivre de manière autonome dans un logement conventionnel serait donc possible pour certaines personnes âgées selon ces auteurs, mais encore faut-il qu'elles reçoivent des soins supplémentaires et un soutien sur place, ce qui est peu fréquent dans les modèles actuels de relogement à long terme.…”

Homelessness in the Suburbs: Engulfment in the Grotto of Poverty

“…People seem to become homeless following several pathways into poverty: Loss of job, disabilities, addictions, loss of housing due to inability to afford the rent, divorce and domestic abuse of women and / or children are amongst the main reasons (Clapham, 2003;Daiski, 2008;2005;Klodawsky, 2010;Wellesley Institute, 2009). Once they fell into poverty, our participants described the difficulties they experienced, such as when applying for social assistance.…”

“…Craig (2010) believes that looking beyond the neo-liberal discourse of "equal opportunities for free independent individuals" towards achieving outcomes of equity for all, a redistributive type of justice must be developed. Klodawsky (2010) advocating for "rights to the city" for all, claims that cities (and other places) should be "inhabitated" by all citizens rather than becoming the "private properties" of a few. While the context might change, homelessness and poverty emerge from social inequities and are inherently unjust in any environment.…”

“…However, no such capacity for support exists in the suburbs so far. As this program targets the visibly homeless on the street, which neo-liberal governments might see as embarrassing and as interfering with business agendas, there is less money left for upgrading and maintaining existing public housing, which precipitates a trend towards privatization (Klodawsky, 2010). The danger is that without oversight market based housing can lead to exploitation and neglect, as we have seen.…”