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| Title: | Public Housing Redevelopment: Residents' Experiences with Relocation from Phase 1 of Toronto's Regent Park Revitalization |
| Authors: | Schippling, Richard M. |
| Keywords: | Public Housing
Relocation
Redevelopment
Gentrification |
| Approved Date: | 30-Apr-2007 |
| Date Submitted: | 2007 |
| Abstract: | Regent Park is Canada’s largest and among its oldest public housing developments. Like similar large-scale public housing developments across North America, Regent Park has come under considerable criticism for isolating low-income households and facilitating crime, among other things. As a result, an ambitious six-phase, one billion dollar revitalization project was initiated in 2005 to completely re-design Regent Park and integrate the neighbourhood into the urban fabric of Toronto. This qualitative study examines the impact of relocation on residents from phase 1 of this revitalization project. With demolition of the neighbourhood commencing in February of 2005, 370 households from Regent Park were dispersed; some stayed in Regent Park, some moved to surrounding neighbourhoods, and others moved further away in the Greater Toronto Area. Open-ended, semi-structured interviews were conducted with members of 21 of these households in an effort to discover some of the more salient impacts of relocation on the lives of phase 1 residents. Both social and place-based impacts were assessed using the frameworks of social capital and place attachment, respectively. The study was conceived of as the first part of a longitudinal study of relocation and resettlement of public housing residents in Regent Park. |
| Program: | Planning |
| Department: | Planning |
| Degree: | Master of Arts |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10012/3028 |
| Appears in Collections: | Faculty of Environment Theses and Dissertations
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