Toronto’s Racialized and Immigrant Areas Hardest Struck By Housing Crisis

New research has taken a deep dive into Toronto’s housing crisis, revealing the stark inequalities in the housing conditions of local renters. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});> The report, from Social Planning Toronto, is a “first-of-its-kind study,” that maps spatial exclusion by racialized and immigrant status in Toronto’s wards. Titled Spaces and Places of Exclusion: Mapping Rental Housing Disparities for Toronto’s Racialized and Immigrant Communities, the report sheds light on the deep racial, social, and geographic divides with communities of colour, newcomers, and refugees — who are hardest hit by the housing crisis. Researched and written by Beth Wilson (Social Planning Toronto), Naomi Lightman (University of Calgary), and Luann Good Gingrich (York University), the study uses individual census data records only available through Statistics Canada’s Research Data Centres to take a deep dive into Toronto’s rental housing crisis.READ: A Fix for Toronto’s Housing Crisis Could Be Hiding in Plain Sight “Toronto’s housing crisis is a story of growing geographic divides, economic inequality, and exclusion,” said Luann Good Gingrich, Associate Professor at York University. “Our research shows housing disparities across Toronto’s 25 wards

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Toronto’s Racialized and Immigrant Areas Hardest Struck By Housing Crisis

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