SOC 470 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Toronto Community Housing, Housing Tenure, Lawrence Heights

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 470
• Professor: cherylteelucksingh

Document Summary

Home ownership (60% of the housing stock owning a house or apartment) Private rental (writing cheques every month to an individual or corporation for rent) Pu(cid:271)li(cid:272) re(cid:374)tal (gover(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t re(cid:374)tal housi(cid:374)g aka so(cid:272)ial housing: public housing vs social housing: There is no new public housing units, but the provincial government originally had the initiative after world war 2 up until the 90s to create public housing. Social housing is generally the same idea but involves corporations like the toronto. Community housing corporation which is not owned by the government but they provide affordable housing. They use the 30% rent formula to figure out the ideal amount for people to pay. People are all paying different rent, if you get a raise your rent is adjusted, if you get laid off your rent is adjusted. Initially these were downtown but as housing downtown became more expensive, it started to move to the inner suburbs: housing in toronto.