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Encampment : resistance, grace, and an unhoused community  Cover Image Book Book

Encampment : resistance, grace, and an unhoused community / Maggie Helwig.

Summary:

The housing crisis plaguing major urban centres has sent countless people into the streets. In spring 2022, some of them found their way to the yard beside the Anglican church in Toronto's Kensington Market, where Maggie Helwig is the priest. They pitched tents, formed an encampment, and settled in. Known as an outspoken social justice activist, Helwig has spent the last three years getting to know the residents and fighting tooth and nail to allow them to stay, battling various authorities that want to clear the yard and keep the results of the housing crisis out of sight and out of mind. Encampment tells the story of Helwig's life-long activism as preparation for her fight to keep her churchyard open to people needing a home. More importantly, it introduces us to the Artist, to Jeff, and to Robin: their lives, their challenges, their humanity. It confronts our society's callousness in allowing so many to go unhoused and demands, by bringing their stories to the fore, that we begin to respond with compassion and grace.

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  • ISBN: 9781552455043 (trade paperback)
  • Physical Description: 197 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: Toronto, ON : Coach House Books, [2025]
Subject: Helwig, Maggie, 1961-
Church work with the homeless > Ontario > Toronto.
Homeless camps > Ontario > Toronto.
Homeless persons > Ontario > Toronto.
Homelessness > Ontario > Toronto.
Political activists > Canada > Biography.
Social justice > Ontario > Toronto.
Women priests > Ontario > Toronto > Biography.
Genre: Biographies.
Personal narratives.

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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Lakeshore Branch 362.59209713541 Hel 31681010420396 NONFICPBK Checked out 07/29/2025


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