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  title info:
    title: Encampment
    sub title: resistance, grace, and an unhoused community
  name:
    name part: Helwig, Maggie
    name part: 1961-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author
  type of resource: text
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: onc
    date issued: 2025
    copyright date: 2025
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 197 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm
  abstract: "An activist priest provides sanctuary for an encampment of unhoused people in her churchyard We think, maybe, that homelessness is some kind of stable state, like being housed except without housing. Without really considering it, most people imagine that people who are homeless live in, if not one place, at least in one condition, that their days are in some way predictable. But homelessness is, more than anything else, a life of constant displacement. 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 prefer to keep the results of the housing crisis out of sight and out of mind. Encampment tells the story of Helwig's lifelong 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 it demands, by bringing their stories to the fore, that we begin to respond with compassion and grace."--
  note: Maggie Helwig.
  note: Issued also in electronic format.
  note: WTC: Shaughnessy Cohen Award for Political Writing, 2026
  subject:
    geographic code: n-cn-on
    geographic code: n-cn---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Helwig, Maggie
      name part: 1961-
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Helwig, Maggie
      name part: 1961-
  subject:
    topic: Church work with the homeless
    geographic: Ontario
    geographic: Toronto
  subject:
    topic: Homeless camps
    geographic: Ontario
    geographic: Toronto
  subject:
    topic: Homelessness
    geographic: Ontario
    geographic: Toronto
  subject:
    topic: Social justice
    geographic: Ontario
    geographic: Toronto
  subject:
    topic: Pastorale des personnes sans-abri
    geographic: Ontario
    geographic: Toronto
  subject:
    topic: Camps de personnes sans-abri
    geographic: Ontario
    geographic: Toronto
  subject:
    topic: Itinérance
    geographic: Ontario
    geographic: Toronto
  subject:
    topic: Justice sociale
    geographic: Ontario
    geographic: Toronto
  classification: HV4510.T6 H45 2025
  classification: 362.5/9209713541
  classification: cci1icc
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Encampment
    name:
      name part: Helwig, Maggie, 1961-
    origin info:
      publisher: Toronto : Coach House Books, 2025
      edition: First edition.
    identifier: (OCoLC)1482781310
  identifier: 9781552455043
  identifier: 1552455041
  identifier: 2025462336
  record info:
    record content source: NLC
    record creation date: 240817
    record change date: 20260412141759.5
    record identifier: in00005789264
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng