City Institute researchers say perceptions must shift for mixed-income neighbourhoods to work

If mixed-income neighbourhoods are to work, such as the one proposed for Lawrence Heights, there has to be a mental shift in the way people view renters, said a professor in York University’s Faculty of Environmental Studies, wrote InsideToronto.com Jan. 6: “You can’t tell people the way to go is to own property,” said Roger […]

Poverty makes us sick; Professor Dennis Raphael says it should make us angry

The sky in Lawrence Heights is low and the horizon is as wide as it gets in the city; no skyscrapers here. Dennis Raphael and I were walking through the neighbourhood on a chilly day, wrote columnist Joe Fiorito in the Toronto Star Jan. 7: He is a professor of health policy & management in […]