Housing and Social Policy: An Historical Perspective on Canadian-American Differences—A Comment

Harris, Richard

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“…Although Canada did not experience the racial violence and White flight witnessed in U.S. cities in the early postwar period, Canada nonetheless did see mortgage subsidies and highway construction used to encourage suburb-anization in similar fashion to the United States. Harris (1999) argues that until the 1960s (and again in the 1990s), housing policy in Canada was less equitable and more encouraging of inner-city decay than in the United States. Canada is somewhat noteworthy for building substantial units of social housing at high density in the inner suburbs of its largest cities during the 1960s and early 1970s (Bourne 2001).…”

Section: The Canadian Contextmentioning

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Suburbanization, the Vote, and Changes in Federal and Provincial Political Representation and Influence Between Inner Cities and Suburbs in Large Canadian Urban Regions, 1945-1999

Walks

2004

Urban Affairs Review

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This article examines the degree to which the relative growth of suburban electoral districts in Canada’s largest urban regions (Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver) has lead to a loss of potential political influence within government on behalf of Canadian inner cities and/or to more support for right-wing political parties. The study finds that although inner cities and suburbs have increasingly diverged in their voting behavior in both federal and provincial elections, the growth of suburban electoral districts has not directly translated into a loss of representation and influence for inner cities. Instead, representation and influence within government are highly dependent upon the party that is in power. At the federal level, the dominance of the Liberal Party has meant that inner cities have tended to wield greater, and the suburbs less, influence, whereas at the level of Ontario provincial politics, the suburbs have indeed been overrepresented and found to wield greater influence within government to the detriment of the inner cities.

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Section: The Canadian Contextmentioning

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Suburbanization, the Vote, and Changes in Federal and Provincial Political Representation and Influence Between Inner Cities and Suburbs in Large Canadian Urban Regions, 1945-1999

Walks

2004

Urban Affairs Review

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“…Whereas housing programs were administered by the Department of Finance in Canada, the same task was carried out by the Federal Housing Administration in the United States. 97 Nonetheless, the gaps did narrow in the 1940s. Following the U.S. model, the Canadian government introduced the idea of urban renewal in the National Housing Act in 1944 and established its own dedicated housing agency called the Central (now Canada) Mortgage and Housing Corporation in 1946.…”

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Racism Is Not Enough: Minority Coalition Building in San Francisco, Seattle, and Vancouver

Kim

2020

Stud. Am. Pol. Dev.

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Scholars have long argued that the marginalized racial status shared by ethnic minority groups is a strong incentive for mobilization and coalition building in the United States. However, despite their members’ shared racial status as “Orientals,” different types of housing coalitions were formed in the Chinatowns of San Francisco, Seattle, and Vancouver during the 1960s and 1970s. Asian race-based coalitions appeared in San Francisco and Seattle, but not in Vancouver, where a cross-racial coalition was built between the Chinese and southern and eastern Europeans. Drawing on exogenous shocks and process tracing, this article explains how historical legacies—specifically, the political geography of settlement—shaped this divergence. These findings demonstrate how long-term historical analysis offers new insights into the study of minority coalition formation in the United States.

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“…All the more remarkable, then, is the 1970s cohabitation that enabled reformers on Toronto City Council to reconcile-at times tensely, but for the better part of a decade-the affordable housing interests of working-class constituents with the preservation impulse of middle-and upper-class ones (and, at times, vice versa). 43 Under Mayor Crombie, and then even more comprehensively under his successor's administration, an industrial policy to create jobs also found a place in the St. Lawrence plan. In 1978, John Sewell, the most radical of the reformers, became mayor of Toronto.…”

Section: The St Lawrence Neighborhood Vs the West Village Housesmentioning

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From Political Outsider To Power Broker in Two “Great American Cities”

Klemek

2008

Journal of Urban History

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Beyond her well-known writings against urban renewal, Jane Jacobs guided the design and implementation of a pair of housing projects while she was a resident of New York in the 1960s and then Toronto in the 1970s. These two firsthand attempts to apply Jacobs's influential ideas on urbanism not only demonstrate her skills as a political activist but also illustrate how some Canadians forged powerful new urban coalitions just as U.S. city politics was becoming increasingly fragmented and incapacitated.By the 1970s, public housing projects were stigmatized all across North America. These "vertical ghettos" became objects of such universal disdain that to this day histories of architecture, planning, and urban and social policy frequently use the 1972 demolition of the Pruitt-Igoe housing project in St. Louis to neatly symbolize the end of the urban renewal order. Yet much is obscured by the dust and rubble of that rapid and spectacular collapsethe fall as much of an architectural vision as a social policy approach that (together) reigned supreme only a decade earlier. In the wake of the fall of the Pruitt-Igoe towers, two revealing if less-noticed public housing projects actually went up in the mid-1970s: one in New York and one in Toronto. 1 The opening ceremony for the West Village Houses in New York occurred in the summer of 1974. Consisting of seven nondescript six-story brick apartment buildings (420 units) that stretched along Washington Street just east of the Hudson River between Morton and Bank Streets, the structures were

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Housing and Social Policy: An Historical Perspective on Canadian-American Differences—A Comment

Cited by 10 publications

References 12 publications

Suburbanization, the Vote, and Changes in Federal and Provincial Political Representation and Influence Between Inner Cities and Suburbs in Large Canadian Urban Regions, 1945-1999

Suburbanization, the Vote, and Changes in Federal and Provincial Political Representation and Influence Between Inner Cities and Suburbs in Large Canadian Urban Regions, 1945-1999

Racism Is Not Enough: Minority Coalition Building in San Francisco, Seattle, and Vancouver

From Political Outsider To Power Broker in Two “Great American Cities”

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