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StreetCities: Rehousing the Homeless
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Rae Bridgman. StreetCities: Rehousing the Homeless. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 2006. Pp.219, illustre., index. US$24.95 (Pb.), ISBN 1-55111-533-6.
StreetCities: Rehousing the Homeless is Rae Bridgman's study of 'StreetCily' and 'Strachan House', a Canadian government supported alternative communal housing experiment for chronically homeless men and women in downtown Toronto in the 1990s. In looking at everyday life in the two converted warehouses that made up this program,...
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