Comment 33775

By beaslyfireworkstechnican (registered) | Posted September 17, 2009 at 09:11:34

UrbanRenaissance

The data is from an undated document called "City Owned Housing Developments", available at www.myhamilton.ca/NR/rdonlyres/EB3E8A55-E9D1-413C-BACC-C139839CEFC2/0/ProjectListing.pdf

There is a slight difference in the dataset that we have (we have listed 6127 units total vs the number 6234 on the city's site) but, some other things we found:

  1. WHO IS HOUSED

Families 50% Seniors 41% Singles 9%

2 HOW THEY ARE HOUSED

Apartment 63 % Row / Townhouse 26 % Semidetached Hoe 4.5 % Single Family Home 4.8 %

  1. SENIORS HOUSING

Seniors Only - 65% Seniors + Singles - 30% Singles, Seniors and Families - 5%

One last methodological point, we cant just break this down as say "X Ward has all the Y people!". As talk of "mixture" needs to talk into account not just "units per ward", but also "units per ward population".

Of course, all of that works under the idea that we can assuming that

a)a proper "mix" (specific to our city) is a simple (and non-complex) knowable and rational judgment we can understand.

b)that people in social housing have less ability to contribute to this city and their role as citizens.

I would argue that both assumptions are false, and do very little to move us towards a compassionate and mutual city.

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