Everybody went out of there, now it’s all brand-new stuff in there, new walls, all brand-new fridges and stoves.

Update: 2019-12-11

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Displacement was not talked about in Kitchener-Waterloo as there were no community housing complexes being redeveloped, but a small scale, under the radar renovations and conversions of houses and low rise buildings. Through Life Stories of Displacement we are preserving some of the history of the process that has been changing the face of downtown and uptown thanks to the partnership with the University of Waterloo School of Planning.

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If our wages stay the same but real estate keeps on going up, like where are we supposed to go?

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Almost everybody in there got an N4 because he waited until the 28th of every month to cash a cheque.

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They wished that there was better affordable places that they could afford

2020-02-1117:27

I know I have a powerful voice and I can advocate for others and I can build myself back up

2020-01-1453:52

You got to do what you got to do to get through the night.

2019-12-2348:00

Everybody went out of there, now it’s all brand-new stuff in there, new walls, all brand-new fridges and stoves.

2019-12-1101:01:46

We seem to be a society of labels

2019-12-0246:41

A house or even an old factory that’s closed up, make rooms, put somebody out there for supervision, give everybody rooms to live in

2019-11-2701:01:46

A million dollar house here, there's going to be some push to get the rooming house out.

2019-11-2033:30

The scarcity of not having a nice home they once had, just overall having to stress and worry.

2019-11-1341:31

The only way things are going to change, or people are going to see differently, is by hearing people that have lived it.

2019-11-0649:33

These are the sort of stories: They have accidents, they get ill, they move away.

2019-11-0601:09:45

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Everybody went out of there, now it’s all brand-new stuff in there, new walls, all brand-new fridges and stoves.

Social Development Centre WR

#box-pro-ellipsis-176457824961421{-webkit-line-clamp:2;}Everybody went out of there, now it’s all brand-new stuff in there, new walls, all brand-new fridges and stoves.

Everybody went out of there, now it’s all brand-new stuff in there, new walls, all brand-new fridges and stoves.

Social Development Centre WR

Everybody went out of there, now it’s all brand-new stuff in there, new walls, all brand-new fridges and stoves.