Five reasons why mixed neighbourhoods are important

Mixed neighbourhoods matter. Without them:

1. Neighbourhoods become increasingly segregated in multiple ways: income, education, race.
2. Some neighbourhoods and residents then live in concentrated disadvantage.
3. Neighbourhoods with less resources have lower levels of resiliency and are less able to weather negative changes.
4. Negative effects are felt more strongly by less mobile residents, those that are more vulnerable: seniors, children / parents, low-income, and  recent immigrants.
5. Social problems which cluster together multiply, creating “hot spots” of social disorder, which then, in turn, spill into other neighbourhoods.

Racial divisions tracking income polarization

Class Warfare, they say…

Ethnic Enclaves in Toronto, 2001 — 2006

Toronto’s Disappearing Middle Class

Diversity in Neighbourhoods

Tags: Cities, Collective Efficacy, Delinquency, Neighbor, Neighborhoods, Polarization, Social Capital, Urban Affairs, Violence