Week 6

Question 1

Housing and Gentrification

Answer 1

1. Homeownership
   - makes up 60% of the housing stock
2. Public/Private Rentals
   - makes up 40% of the housing market

Question 2

History of Housing

Answer 2

1. Before the 1900’s
   - annexation
2. Post-WWI
   - introduction of health reforms
   - creation of the CMHC
3. Present Day
   - Gentrification

Question 3

Novakovic

Answer 3

Importance of the Yellowbelt
- residential zoning banning high-density housing
- outdated by-laws
- need to increase density

Question 4

Murdie and Texeira

Answer 4

Ethnic Enclaves compact neighbourhoods with residents of the same racial/ethnic background
Institutional Completeness minority community’s ability to meet its own needs internally
- led to ethnoburbs (e. g. Brampton)

Question 5

Caulifield

Answer 5

Two waves of gentrifiers: risk-takers and investors
Negative effets: displacement, unaffordability, …
- led to Manhattanization

Question 6

Changes Needed

Answer 6

• less privatization of housing
• returning to mixed-income neighbourhoods
• Indigenous partners in urban planning
• more supportive housing
• more initiatives like Community Land Trusts and the TCHC