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7 comments:
Check this video out to see what the community was saying a year ago about Tannery Court (NOV. 20, 2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp7HDP9SVgM&feature=related
(parts 2, 3,4, & 5 on You Tube as well
It is too bad that Coop Atlantic/AVIDE/Tannery Court choose to not consider the voices of those in the communities.
It's bold to say Avide didn't consider the voices just because they didn't agree with them.
They did not make any changes based on any of the expressed concerns other than the addition of 8 bath tubs.
It is not "bold" it is "accurate".
They had their plans to build a box and they are now building it.
Now sadly watch the next box and the next box get built. We all can guess which neighborhoods they will be built in next.
All this talk about mixed-income housing is only that if no one stops these kinds of developments.
Is it just me, but isn't housing better than a dirt parking lot? I remember 10 years back or so when that area around there was known as "crack corner" & people were openly selling drugs on street corners,so I mean how can this really be a step backwards? I guess I haven't followed this as close as most, so I guess I don't see the problems.
Well, the core of the issue has been the concentration of poverty in a small geographic area.
An area already experiencing a crippling rate of 56% poverty in the immediate 6-block neighbourhood.
Essentially, due to backwards housing policies, we seem to only construct housing for the poor in poor neighbourhoods... thus solidifying poverty's grip in this area.
It is patently discriminatory to create and enhance "poverty reserves" and to doom not only individuals and families outside the building, but those inside to so little hope.
It has always been about more than "just a box."
"In some circumstances escape may not be possible.
Especially in the urban slum, race or poverty may confine individuals to an area of intrinsically limited opportunity.
And once again the environment perpetuates its handicaps through poor schools, evil neighborhood influences, and bad preparation for life."
-- John Kenneth Galbraith, "The Affluent Society", 1958.
Howard LaBillois
There is poverty in every part of this city...Go look at the shape of The North End or the Lower West Side...Or near Waterloo Street.There are many different types of housing go up & not all are for "poor people".Some are out of the range of the low income class & even the middle class of people & some are catered simply to them.The Government can't make people get education & go on to get better jobs, all they do is provide the services for people to get & use & better there situation.....If i was in a low income bracket, I would much rather live in what is being called a box, then some of these old,drafty & unsuitable living conditions in a lot of Saint John neighborhoods.
Unfortunately, the approach "If i was in a low income bracket, I would much rather live in what is being called a box" has been the main stay of housing policies.
If we perpetually accept "good enough" approaches, then we are ensuring dire results and consequences for our neighbourhoods... on going.
No one is saying that there is no need for housing... but must stop being "wilfully ignorant" around how our approaches actually makes it worse.
By "not being in a low income bracket" you are afforded the option of choice... those in poverty have no choice... only what we choose to give them... even it is in a desperate neighbourhood.
All of the housing units that have been torn down or are need of critical upgrades have used the "good enough" approach... and we are all paying the price for it.
From my families experience, we know that the highest price paid, has been children in these highly impoverished areas.
This is not making it better and we should be able to recognize it by now... if we really want to look... that is.
Howard LaBillois
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