Video

December 8, 2020

Spaces and Places of Exclusion: Rental Housing Disparities for Toronto’s Racialized and Immigrant Communities

By Evergreen

This session was presented as part of Future Cities Canada: #UnexpectedSolutions.

Naomi Lightman, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Calgary

Professor Naomi Lightman, University of Calgary, explores issues of social, racial, and spatial exclusion in rental housing in Toronto using GIS and disaggregated race-based and other social data from the 2016 Census of Population. Professor Lightman previews findings from a new study with Social Planning Toronto, using visual data to aid in meaningful social policy change.

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