GEO 793 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Visible Minority, Pacific Mall, Placemaking
6 Apr 2016
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Toronto"s new immigrant groups: cultural and racial heterogeneity. Come from different parts of the world: socio-economic heterogeneity. Richmond hill and downtown: but outside of the outer suburbs there are much less minorities (cid:1) (cid:1) Composed of: black canadians and americans. Not immigrants, born in canada and america: black south americans, black africans, caribbean blacks. They all have different history and culture: saying they"re all in the black community simplifies them. Immigrants" barriers in canadian housing markets: economic disadvantage and housing costs. Toronto and vancouver is the most expensive to live in: lack of knowledge about functioning of housing markets. They don"t know what to look for or where to look before buying or renting a house: lack of fluency in english and or french. Some people don"t know english or french. Its hard to communicate with the landlord or agent: racism. By law you cant discriminate on the basis of race.
