Comment 38238

By grassroots are the way forward (registered) | Posted February 19, 2010 at 21:14:52

Jason: The talk was at Skydragon, Who has the Right to Shape the City. It revolved around gentrification and there were four panelists, whom all had their views. Ryan was there as a panelist.

People expressed their views about this forum on a few points, the poor bashing that goes on by some posters, that fact that the poor are displaced by raising real estate prices, so that those who are the poorest can no longer afford to live.

It is not easy to live on minimum wage so your comment is out of line. Those on minimum wage may be able to afford shelter and food, cover their transportation costs but little else. Anyways many of the working poor are accessing services at the food banks, especially those who have children. And not all shelter that the working poor can afford is always the best.

So the query that was brought up at the discussion about the new urbanists, is that with their call for rising estate prices and rents, the poor are displaced and if they are no replacement of housing for them to go, will they be left to live in tent cities at the fringes of the city if social assistance, ODSP or wages do not increase as well.

Those from the grassroots can affect change

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