RT Article
T1 Public or Private? The Pope Squat and Housing Struggles in Toronto
JF Social justice
VO 33
IS 3
SP 142
OP 157
A1 Lehrer, Ute 1960-
A1 Winkler, Andrea
A2 Winkler, Andrea
LA English
YR 2006
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1747157449
AB Part of a special issue on resistance to neoliberal globalization. In 2002, the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) in Canada occupied a vacant building in Toronto's South Parkdale neighborhood in a bid to resist privatization processes in the city and build a broad-based coalition to combat policies that drive neoliberal urbanism. OCAP's actions raised critical awareness of the housing crisis and forced recognition of the ownership of the physical property they occupied. The squat on 1510 King West represented a counter-story of housing in the city. A housing crisis is imminent despite city officials' celebration of the condominium boom as a key element of an Official Plan that follows guidelines responding to the needs of sustainability and smart-growth strategies.
K1 urban planning
K1 Public spaces
K1 Neoliberalism
K1 Privatization
K1 Housing policy
K1 Housing
K1 Gentrification