Admiral Beez
Superstar
Unlike some of the sheep here, I refuse to jump to group think and assume an unorthodox or seemingly outrageous suggestion is such.You do know that parents that receive subsidies live throughout the city, not just in Regent Park, right?
I think there is some truth that Toronto, especially within the pre-amalgamation Toronto borders, is becoming a community where only the well off or those on government assistance can raise kids. The folks who do not use or qualify for gov't housing or other funding support, and who do not have well paying jobs can likely not afford to raise kids here.
I grew up in the Beaches (yes, despite newcomers and RE agents, there are a plurality of beaches along Queen East). My parents had regular middle class jobs, and bought the house in the 1980s for a couple of hundred grand. My wife's parents, a Bell Canada tech and a school teacher, bought their house in the Beaches for under $50K in the 1960s. In 1998 my wife and I (school secretary and junior marketing manager) bought our house in Cabbagetown for well under $300K.
These days of affordable housing are over. Regular folk simply cannot afford family sized housing in the city. It's not a problem in my mind as it's the market deciding the price, and it's not something I want the gov't to remedy. But it's still a fact that the city is becoming unaffordable for many families.