SOC 470 Lecture Notes - The Huffington Post, Ob River, Affordable Housing
5 Dec 2012
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Toronto"s three cities and income disparity. Poor are getting a small piece of the pie. 2 able to control resources in the city to protect their own lifestyles and economic interests. Lecture: gentrification - more affluent people moving into places that were lower income - extension of their reach - taking up more geography and opportunities. From a urban political economy perspective, those with more income are better. In this sense, the affluences of the few has consequences for many people. Lobbying for no condos in a neighbourhood - powerful homeowners and politicians siding with them for votes: hulchanski - changes of neighbourhoods overtime, hulchanski"s three cities trends. Between 1970- 2005, middle income areas in toronto have been reduced. Neighbourhoods found in the central city; close to the subway lines. Very little change in the incomes in this area. Scattered throughout the city represents 20% = normally equated with middle-class areas.
