GEO 793 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Yonge-Dundas Square, Mel Lastman, Toronto City
8 Mar 2017
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Neoliberalism: neoliberalism started roughly with the governments of ronald reagan in the us and margaret thatcher in the uk. Its main tenets are: personal responsibility and initiative, deregulation, privatization, liberalization of markets, downsizing of governments, cutbacks to the welfare state. Housing policy in canada: affordable housing or social housing is the same. A lot of people in yearly basis are forced to sleep in shelter places or outside in toronto. Ocap"s a(cid:396)gu(cid:373)e(cid:374)t is that people should not have empty housing places in toronto and across. Before ww2, canada did not have social housing so people without houses asked charities: until 1944, no social housing in canada. In 1995, ontario cut funding for affordable housing. Federal and province left but the city was suddenly responsible to pay for affordable housing. Cities across the province do not have enough money to fund social housing. Housing policy in toronto: city of toronto had to find alternative ways to fund social housing.
