{"product_id":"dispatches-from-the-threshold-rae-baker-9781773637273","title":"Dispatches from the Threshold: Tenant Power in Times of Crisis","description":"\u003cp\u003eDispatches from the Threshold is an emergent archive of the burgeoning movement for housing justice in North America and beyond. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHousing insecurity turned catastrophic during the COVID-19 pandemic, exposing the cruelty of threadbare tenant protections and state hostility toward unhoused people made worse by mass unemployment, a public health crisis, and racist police violence. Since 2020, tenants have successfully fought back against evictions and encampment policing, pushed their governments to extend and fortify eviction moratoria, strengthened tenants' rights and protections for unhoused people, and thought beyond strategies that primarily appease landlords and lenders. At the same time, the urgent work of stemming immediate eviction, displacement, and surveillance has sat in tension with long-haul movement work and cross-movement organizing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book brings together activists, scholars, and legal practitioners directly involved in tenant organizing to contextualize and catalogue the traction and tensions of the movement across seventeen cities in five countries. Contributors connect housing justice to struggles against criminalization, surveillance, and policing, and to debates about social reproduction, precarity, organized labour, abolitionist praxis, and political strategy. These dispatches are as much a chronicle of organizing in a moment of crisis as an invitation to build solidarities across movements to ensure enduring justice for all. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith contributions from Vancouver, Victoria, Toronto, Winnipeg, Detroit, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Newark, Atlanta, San Francisco, Chicago, Washington, Los Angeles, Lexington, Belgrade, Melbourne, and Khori Gaon.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rae Baker, Alexander Ferrer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1773637274\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781773637273\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fernwood Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/18\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Rae Baker","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46465687716095,"sku":"9781773637273","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c56a5ec1-3aac-44f3-af62-d8e9909a3808.jpg?v=1736346990","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dispatches-from-the-threshold-rae-baker-9781773637273","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}