GEO 793 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Toronto Community Housing, Where We Are, Upper Class
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Exam - april 21, 2017 @9:00 am: cities are competing not just between cities but internationally. Provincial has the most money where city level has the lowest. City gets funding from property tax and usually provincial government provides some funding to cities for services like ttc. If fares go up blame: public housing was partially pad by federal and provincial. In late (cid:1012)0"s, federal said i (cid:449)o(cid:374)"t fu(cid:374)d the housi(cid:374)g. i(cid:374) (cid:1013)0s, the pro(cid:448)i(cid:374)(cid:272)ial said if federal is (cid:374)ot fu(cid:374)di(cid:374)g the(cid:374) (cid:449)e (cid:449)o(cid:374)"t fu(cid:374)d either. O(cid:374)l(cid:455) larger ser(cid:448)i(cid:272)e pro(cid:448)iders i(cid:374) pro(cid:448)i(cid:374)(cid:272)ial were surviving such as toronto community housing corporation (tchc). They survived because they owned fair amount of land in. They can decide to either sell the land to get money or rent the land to businesses: tchc decides to make social mix. In building, in order save money, tchc chose to contract private cleaning companies instead of hiring own staff because its cost effective.