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Cathy Crowe

CATHY CROWE is a street-nurse in downtown Toronto and has worked in the area of homelessness for over seventeen years. Along with colleagues, she co-founded the Toronto Disaster Relief Committee (TDRC), which in 1998 declared homelessness a national disaster. Cathy is a current recipient of the Atkinson Charitable Foundation's Economic Justice Award.

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Dying for a Home

Dying for a Home

Homeless Activists Speak Out
by Cathy Crowe
edition:Paperback
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Cathy Crowe always wanted to be a nurse but she never planned to be a street nurse?a title she continues to use to evoke the horror of homelessness in a rich country like Canada. In Dying for a Home Crowe brings us the voices of ten homeless activists advocating for change. The word homeless conjures many stereotypes, but rarely does it suggest bra …

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