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Cathy Crowe was born on 1952 in Cobourg, Ontario, Canada, is a Canadian homeless advocate. Discover Cathy Crowe's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 72 years old?
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Cathy Crowe, (born 1952) is a Canadian "street nurse", educator, author, social justice activist and filmmaker, specializing in advocacy for the homeless in Canada.
She is a frequent commentator on issues related to health, homelessness and affordable housing.
She is currently a visiting practitioner at Toronto Metropolitan University.
Born in Cobourg, Ontario, but raised in Kingston, Ontario, Cathy Crowe moved to Toronto to work and study at the Toronto General Hospital, where she received a diploma in nursing in 1972.
In 1985, she received a Bachelor of Applied Arts in nursing from Ryerson Polytechnical Institute (now Toronto Metropolitan University).
Crowe became known as a "street nurse", a term coined in the early 1990s by a homeless man in the impoverished downtown Toronto area where she worked.
She is noted for her work with the homeless and poor populations in Toronto, Canada's largest city.
She is an activist for affordable housing, public health and social justice.
In 1992, she received her Master of Education in Sociology, from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE).
She was married twice; with her last marriage, to former Metro Toronto Councillor Roger Hollander, ending in divorce in 1995.
She has a daughter and three grandsons.
In 1998, along with other social justice activists and academics, she co-founded the Toronto Disaster Relief Committee (TDRC).
They brought public attention to homelessness, declaring it to be a man-made disaster, which in their view, qualified as a social welfare disaster requiring the same kind of response that governments give to natural disasters.
This human-disaster was the basis for the name of the group and many of its ideas.
The TDRC and Crowe promoted the idea of a "One Percent Solution" to end homelessness.
The one percent solution calls for each level of government to commit an additional one percent of their budget towards affordable, social housing.
She was named Person of the Year by the Toronto Sun (2000) and Toronto's Best Homelessness advocate by NOW magazine (2005).
Crowe received an International Nursing Ethics Award in 2003 in Amsterdam.
She was also the recipient of the Economic Justice Fellowship Award, from the Atkinson Charitable Foundation, in 2004 which was twice renewed.
In January 2010, Crowe entered electoral politics by offering to run for the Ontario New Democratic Party (ONDP) as their candidate in the February 4 by-election in the riding of Toronto Centre.
At the ONDP's January 10 nomination meeting, her candidacy went uncontested.
Crowe finished a strong second, doubling the NDP's vote totals by taking 33 percent of the popular vote.
She ran a second time in the 2011 provincial general election but lost to incumbent Murray.
For many years she worked closely with former Toronto City Councillor and leader of the federal NDP Jack Layton.
She wrote the foreword to his book ''Homelessness.
How to End the National Crisis'' which he co-authored with Michael Shapcott.
Crowe's book, Dying for a Home: Homeless Activists Speak Out, is a first-hand account of Canadian homelessness and also discusses the practical steps needed to address the problem.
In January 2018, Crowe was appointed as a Member of the Order of Canada.
She is a recipient of numerous honorary doctorates (University of Victoria, McMaster University, University of Ottawa, York University, University of Windsor, Law Union of Ontario) and an honorary Bachelor of Applied Sciences (Humber College).
Crowe published her memoirs, A Knapsack Full of Dreams: Memoirs of a Street Nurse in 2019.
In it, she reflects on her life as a street nurse and advocate for the homeless; the role characterized by some journalists of a "relentless accuser" advocating for policy change that addresses the causes of social injustice, rather than dealing simply with the symptoms.
Crowe co-edited ''[https://utorontopress.com/9781487546496/displacement-city/ Displacement City.
Fighting for Health and Homes in a Pandemic.]''
Crowe has been involved in multiple documentary films about homelessness: