Territorial stigmatization had a big a role to play in our community at large. Regent park in Toronto is being demolished to pave way for mixed use by coming up with anew urban design introducing 5400 new markets which will influence increase in density and rent geared towards income subsidized from 100% to 26%. This clearly shows the many advantages of residing in areas with concentrated poverty. Despite the many challenges they face social developments remains a questionable issue out of the many promises they get. Tenants also have a close relationship to the Regent park citizens who have a limited network in support and friendship.
Poverty is clearly seen as the source of social and physical problems faced by the residents of Regent park. The place is seen as den of all problems especially to outsiders which is contrary different to the people living in that place. In Toronto Regent
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park people liked their homes describing it in so many ways as the best. Social ties are well located with plenty of friendship and supporters who points out the real problems. The main disadvantages in these areas that need to be pointed out and need immediate solutions are poor housing and drug trade leading to the stigmatization which they termed as enduring. Policymakers have a great task to look at gentrification and displacement as a decay to the park regents. Redevelopments greatly influence gentrification in areas where public housing bared it from happening. Clearance of public housing creates path of free land which is used to make up houses for trade development. These help cities that are highly populated by upper class and middle class personnel repopulate. Globally the organisation system has been disorganised creating rise in employment services which highly raised the level of competition in the industries at middle level. Territorial stigmatization helps in changing public housing into a real estate’scircuits. Political leaders come up with strict policies regarding the degradation of the urban.They put up strict measures to raise the discipline standards and also increase their opportunities in society. This highly triggers development and improvement. Media has highly condoned those areas because of their negativity such as rise in crimes and poor garbage disposal methods. There is much isolation due to less academic support this reducing the opportunities of good jobs network and as a result these people suffer neighbourhood neglect effects .Due to this the official should come up with designs to create social mix which will be a key to a health community. Public housing should be taken as a positive place.This will highly encourage visitors and children feel contented with their homes.Culture diversity will highly be appreciated.
Scholars who study these houses always points out house maintenance and quality, drug dealing and safety as the major problem in these public housing. They are the productive grounds for drug trafficking and petty criminal cases. Media displays the real pictures of these places as places of danger and loneliness ghettos.
Despite many challenges in the reagent parks the people living there are very social and cooperative. People from all over the world meet here and interact and culture diversity increase. Mutual understanding and shared experiences is also a benefit to the residents of regent parks.The media always talk negative about this place but the tenants claim that it is a safe place unlike everyone else opinion. The main problem faces the kids who are growing up .They face a lot of discrimination especially in school where everyone refers to them as children from the ghetto lowering their
self-esteem. People living in slums were taken as in capable. In Canada the poor were blamed for their living conditions .They were understood as families of the hard cores. The regent parks have much influence to the government. The government accepting the liberal political ideas reagent parks are influenced in a big way like the government of Canada did in 1970 which is embraced till today. In the Canada diversity has concluded that regent parks are not ghettos based on the fact that it is a place with many different communities. By the year 1990 the reagent park had been further marginalised in Canada and the government failed to take responsibility. This was an alarm where the Toronto Community Housing took over and aimed to improving the living standards of the poor. In the year 2009 reforms were noticed as first returning residents moved to new constructed public housing. Every resident is guaranteed the right of return .Political economy that is neoliberal has a close connection to Regent Park Revitalization. After many years of isolation the Regent Parks can be seen as a new dawn for the marginalised society. Neoliberal restructuring of our regent parks and postmodern planning has much reflection to our modern life especially to the neighbourhood during the revitalization period. The acceptance of government intervention would be acceptable if only the market driven redevelopment took the position instead which would properly ensure equitability in the distribution and repairs of urban lands and matters of shifting.
According to statistics canada Toronto in 2001, around 70% of the buildings in the area are high rise rental apartments but during the industrial era (1940’s ) most were private homes. Immigrants from countries such as the Philippines , Vietnam , Tamil, Chinese , Tibetan , Caribbeans and Hungarian have occupied parkdale since the 1980’s to present leading to the construction of these apartments with high storeys as seen in the census done in 2001. With high number of immigrants in the area increasing,Parkdale area soon developed a bad reputation as a neighbourhood of poverty, crime , drugs and homelessness These reputations led to segregation of neighbourhoods where the rich separated themselves, this happened on the basis of both of income and ethnicity.These is currently mainly occupied by minorities.Looking at the statistics in 2001 the top ten ethnicity living in this area were all immigrants with 20% arriving in Canada between 1980-1991 and other 25% arriving by 1991-2000 according to Ontario immigration data. 51% of these immigrants were born outside canada. Since it cost more to live in nicer neighbourhoods most immigrants end up in areas like parkdale where rent is cheap and other
“Gentrification is a general term for the arrival of wealthier people in an existing urban district, a related increase in rents and property values, and changes in the district's character and culture.” (Grant) In layman’s terms, gentrification is when white people move to a black neighborhood for the sake of cheaper living, and in turn, raise up property values and force black neighbors to leave because of a higher price of living. Commonly, the government supports gentrification with the demolition of public housing in areas that are developing with more white neighbors. This is causing a decreasing amount of African Americans to be able to afford to live in the neighborhood as their homes are taken away from them, forcing them to relocate. Whilst gentrification normally has negative connotations, there are several people who believe gentrification brings about “an upward trend in property values in previously neglected neighborhoods.” (Jerzyk) On the other hand, this new trend in property value and business causes those...
This article study will define the important aspects of space and racial identity that are defined through Canadian Constitutional law in “When Place Becomes Race” by Sherene H. Razack. Razack (2002) the historical premise of a “white settler society” as the foundation for spatial hierarchies in the Canadian society, which reflect a racial divide in the community. The white settler society was based on the Anti-Terrorism Act, within Canadian law, which reflects the post-9/11 culture of the Canadian government that has become racialized in the early portion of the 21st century. Razack utilizes the important method of “unmapping” to reconstruct the racial histories that
Chicago’s Cabrini-Green public housing project is notorious in the United States for being the most impoverished and crime-ridden public housing development ever established. Originally established as inexpensive housing in the 1940’s, it soon became a vast complex of unsightly concrete low and high-rise apartment structures. Originally touted as a giant step forward in the development of public housing, it quickly changed from a racially and economically diverse housing complex to a predominantly black, extremely poor ghetto. As it was left to rot, so to speak, Cabrini-Green harbored drug dealers, gangs and prostitution. It continued its downward spiral of despair until the mid 1990’s when the Federal Government assumed control the Chicago Housing Authority, the organization responsible for this abomination. Cabrini-Green has slowly been recovering from its dismal state of affairs recently, with developers building mixed-income and subsidized housing. The Chicago Housing Authority has also been demolishing the monolithic concrete high-rise slums, replacing them with public housing aimed at not repeating the mistakes of the past. Fortunately, a new era of public housing has dawned from the mistakes that were made, and the lessons that were learned from the things that went on for half a century in Cabrini-Green.
Another noteworthy urban sociologist that’s invested significant research and time into gentrification is Saskia Sassen, among other topical analysis including globalization. “Gentrification was initially understood as the rehabilitation of decaying and low-income housing by middle-class outsiders in central cities. In the late 1970s a broader conceptualization of the process began to emerge, and by the early 1980s new scholarship had developed a far broader meaning of gentrification, linking it with processes of spatial, economic and social restructuring.” (Sassen 1991: 255). This account is an extract from an influential book that extended beyond the field of gentrification and summarizes its basis proficiently. In more recent and localized media, the release the documentary-film ‘In Jackson Heights’ portrayed the devastation that gentrification is causing as it plagues through Jackson Heights, Queens. One of the local businessmen interviewed is shop owner Don Tobon, stating "We live in a
“gentrification as an ugly product of greed”. Yet these perspectives miss the point. Gentrification is a byproduct of mankind's continuing interest in advancing the notion that one group is more superior to another and worthy of capitalistic consumption with little regard to social consciousness. It is elitism with the utmost and exclusionary politics to the core. This has been a constant theme of mankind taking or depleting space for personal gain.
With increasing housing prices, it is not bearable to indigenous residents. The author reiterates that many residents of gentrifying neighborhoods fear the possibility of being displaced and are unsettled by the feeling of being pushed out. The issue of displacement in gentrifying areas is one of the biggest issues implied in this chapter. This relates a lot to my research because of the fact one of the main concerns mentioned in my research is figuring out what occurs to residents who are displaced from their homes because they are not able to afford their rent? There must be a certain mechanism that tap the wealth created by gentrification for the benefit of indigenous and poorer residents who may wish to one day live in a neighborhood.
Housing segregation is as the taken for granted to any feature of urban life in the United States (Squires, Friedman, & Siadat, 2001). It is the application of denying minority groups, especially African Americans, equal access to housing through misinterpretation, which denies people of color finance services and opportunities to afford decent housing. Caucasians usually live in areas that are mostly white communities. However, African Americans are most likely lives in areas that are racially combines with African Americans and Hispanics. A miscommunication of property owners not giving African American groups gives an accurate description of available housing for a decent area. This book focuses on various concepts that relates to housing segregation and minority groups living apart for the majority group.
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