[news] Changes at Canada's first social-housing project

[Resist!ca]

"Michael lives in Regent Park, a 50-year-old housing project that was designed as a workers' paradise, only to degenerate into one of Canada's poorest and most violent neighbourhoods. Now, his world is about to undergo an unprecedented change in the hope of altering its dismal course. Beginning this fall, Regent Park will be demolished, making way for a $1-billion development that will mix subsidized housing with market rent units and owner-occupied homes."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/3/17328/78287