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作者

来源

URBAN GEOGRAPHY,Vol.42,Issue5,P.603-633

语言

英文

关键字

Gentrification,neoliberalism,housing,condoism,Canada

作者单位

Department of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

摘要

This paper contributes to the gentrification literature by asking how tenure changes, housing stock changes, and generational shifts might be related to gentrification as identified by household income growth in the inner cities of Canada’s three largest metropolitan areas. We use a modified shift-share analysis of changes in tenure, housing stock, and age-tenure cohorts between 1991 and 2011 to examine these questions in Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver, Canada’s largest metropolitan areas. We find that in each case, gentrification is associated with an absolute decline in non-condo private-sector rental units, and that construction of non-market/social housing units has not been sufficient to compensate for the private-sector units lost to gentrification. Our analysis demonstrates that changes in the class structure of households, more than generational or age-cohort composition shifts, are at the heart of inner-city transformations in tenure and income among households. The big story is the absolute loss of affordable rental units in each inner city, and the concomitant exclusionary displacement of lower-income households that has resulted.KEYWORDS: GentrificationneoliberalismhousingcondoismCanadaAcknowledgementsThis article draws on research supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. We wish to thank SSHRC for their support. We would also like to thank the reviewers for the comments and suggestionsDisclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada [435-2014-0370].