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City wants to hide priority neighbourhoods, pretend they don’t exist
Monday, July 4th, 2011
Jun 29 2011
Listen to the slick, contemptible councillors and the slithery rhetoric aimed at channeling the few targeted dollars away from the poorest citizens. Whoever knew that Jane-Finch and Rexdale were “gravy,” a waste of money in Toronto the Good? …There is a reason these areas were deemed priority neighbourhoods. In some, three in four families live below the poverty line. Worse, there was an astonishing lack of resources to serve the residents. In fact, some downtown neighbourhoods were poorer in terms of household incomes, but had the social supports to make life tolerable.
Tags: budget, ideology, poverty, standard of living
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