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Heron Gate, Racial Stigma, and Strategic Neglect
From: Resisting Eviction
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Chapter 5 offers a profile of Heron Gate Village. Crosbys analyzes statistics on community demographics and housing. With its high concentration of immigrants, refugees, and people of colour, Heron Gate experiences housing inequality, strategic neglect, and structural racism. However, it is a liveable community that offers strong social supports and cultural networks for its racialized and migrant residents. This chapter also provides a remarkable example of how Heron Gate’s landlord manoeuvred municipal legal mechanisms to renege on maintenance obligations for the purposes of hastening demolition.
Contributors
Andrew Crosby
Andrew Crosby is a postdoctoral researcher in the School of Planning at the University of Waterloo, with a PhD in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University. He is co-author of Policing Indigenous Movements: Dissent and the Security State (2018, Fernwood).
