SOC 470 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Creative Class, Ecological Footprint, Gentrification

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 470
• Professor: Cheryl Teelucksingh

Document Summary

Public housing involves the government, the government pulled out after a period of time of doing affordable housing and providing housing for lower income people. A lot more social housing now, non profit/corporations provide this housing. Toronto needs to have a mix of housing types/tenure(whether or not its rent or ownership) important so that everybody in toronto would be able to access housing. Need to have a variety of forms of housing. At one point consistent with chicago (murdie) ethnic enclaves which leads to institutional completeness (own churches, community centres, parallel institutions) and then they would become socially and economically mobile. Now diversity with immigrants, immigrants are settling in the suburbs now (ethnoburbs) this has to do with the fact that ethnic enclaves are being gentrified. Gentrification-upscaling of neighburhoods-2 waves: risk takers vs. investors (use toronto strategically)=this all accounts for the dt being very different.