This situation underscores the wider problem of a lack of affordable housing in the GTA. Lots of people here are on fixed incomes, and many of those are at the mercy of landlords who are naturally more concerned with their bottom line than with their tenants' welfare. If redevelopment will net the landowner a windfall, it's thier right to pursue that.
Trailer parks don't enter into the equation often. It's a lifestyle choice that is atypical up here, but one can see from these articles that these people are very attached to it: nobody is doing them a favour here by forcing them out. I'll bet that for the residents to simply band together to try to find a parcel of land to buy and relocate to somewhere close by will be next to impossible. Beyond the price of land in the GTA, I'll bet there's no land zoned for new trailer parks here anyway. Realistically, these people are facing the end of their way of life.
Not to turn them into a side show, but it would be worth Canadian Geographic (or National Geo, or the National Film Board, or somebody, anybody) to go into the site on a regular basis to document the last year at the park.
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Trailer parks don't enter into the equation often. It's a lifestyle choice that is atypical up here, but one can see from these articles that these people are very attached to it: nobody is doing them a favour here by forcing them out. I'll bet that for the residents to simply band together to try to find a parcel of land to buy and relocate to somewhere close by will be next to impossible. Beyond the price of land in the GTA, I'll bet there's no land zoned for new trailer parks here anyway. Realistically, these people are facing the end of their way of life.
Not to turn them into a side show, but it would be worth Canadian Geographic (or National Geo, or the National Film Board, or somebody, anybody) to go into the site on a regular basis to document the last year at the park.
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