#gentriication

“We have all of these new, awesome places, but none of us can even afford them. I mean, a lot of us won’t even step foot in them. I went in one the other day, a juice place — they wanted $10 for a shake. There’s no way we can afford that. That’s almost a week’s worth of food,” - Lynn Thompson    “It’s a sense of powerlessness — and the onus is really on the new people, who have the power, to build relationships,” says Hanson. “It’s not the other way around, because you’re dealing with a different power dynamic. You can’t expect people who have been scarred from residential schools, or lived in poverty for years, to knock on someone’s door at the Two Twenty and say, ‘Hey, can I have a talk with you about this community?’ That’s really unrealistic.” - Yvonne Hanson of CHEP