![]() ![]() As an adult, working in placemaking and stakeholder engagement across academic and professional contexts, I’ve refused to accept the city’s growing disparity and increase in housing vulnerability. It has also been a place fraught with numerous challenges including an under-aged sex trade that I witnessed, which claimed the life of a friend’s older sister. For me, social housing has been a place of significance – a place where I spent my formative years developing unconditional friendships, resilience and city-building values. For her, our time in the community was a shameful blip in a story of immigration and ascension to the “respectable” middle-class. ![]() She was eager to leave behind all memories of social housing. I’d recently completed a photo essay documenting the social housing community where I lived before my mother completed her post-secondary education and moved us out. Around this time last year, I was invited to co-edit an anthology exploring inclusive city-building. ![]()
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