Memph
Active Member
It seems like there's been a rather significant increase in low income residents in Milliken in the last few years. That's also pointing towards a new pattern, where cookie cutter small lot SFHs are increasingly home to Toronto's low income population. Most of the census tracts that have fallen from low to very low income from 2005 to 2012 have relatively few apartment buildings if any, and consist mostly of houses and townhouses - in Milliken especially, but also in Malvern, plus a bit in Malton, Rexdale and Brampton. That's despite the fact that there are still a fair bit of census tracts in Scarborough, York, North York and Mississauga with a substantial number of older apartment buildings that are still low (rather than very low) income.Here's some income maps for Toronto and other CMAs, based on 2012 taxfiler data
http://neighbourhoodchange.ca/documents/2015/12/maps-of-ct-incomes-eight-cmas-2012.pdf
A few years ago, talk of suburbanization of poverty in Toronto mostly focussed on rising poverty in the 60s and 70s towers of Scarborough, North York and North Etobicoke, but the recent data seems to be suggesting it's now spreading to far flung tract homes? It's not something you hear much of in the news, and from all the talk of shortage of single family homes, you'd think the poverty would be increasingly segregated into apartments rather than spreading to suburban SFHs. Or is it possible that there are data quality issues or that the data is misleading? Although I've checked out many of these "very low income" SFH/townhouse neighbourhoods by bike, that's just about it, I've never talked to anyone from those areas.