Resisting Eviction: Domicide and the Financialization of Rental Housing
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English | 196 pages | Fernwood Publishing (November 9, 2023) | 1773636375 | EPUB | 10 Mb
Resisting Eviction centres tenant organizing in its investigation of gentrification, eviction and the financialization of rental housing. Andrew Crosby argues that racial discrimination, property relations and settler colonialism inform contemporary urban (re)development efforts and impacts affordable housing loss.
How can the City of Ottawa aspire to become “North America’s most liveable mid-sized city” while large-scale, demolition-driven evictions displace hundreds of people and destroy a community? Troubling discourses of urban liveability, revitalization and improvement, Crosby examines the deliberate destruction of home―domicide―and tenant resistance in the Heron Gate neighbourhood in Ottawa, on unceded Algonquin land.