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10 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Wednesday, July 6, 1960 ~ SLUM AREAS CLEARED UP REGENT PARK SOUTH APTS. TORONTO SLUMS SPAWN CRIME Canadians Want Decent Living CP CROSS-CANADA SURVEY MOVEP FROM SLUM By PAT USSHER Lawy#is scrrounding the build-|sons is one of the major problems looked| theé® children. There are no Canadian Press Staff Writer Mrs. Lorna Coulson cheerfully around her comiort-| | through streets in the project and | able, bright four-bedroom house. [traffic hazards are eliminated. "This is a nice spot, believe| me," she said. |in non-subsidized municipal housing district. The house was damp; development in Toronto's.~east there was nowhere for the chil- end. They have a two = storey|dren to play. home in a row-house building. rs. Coulson said she had to! The rooms are light and airy.|tie her smaller children to a fire| An electric stove and refrigera- hydrant to prevent them wander- tor are supplied by the housing|ing into the street, a major rush. authority. A gas furnace provides| hour traffic artery, heat. The rent: $86 a month. Plood-Lust of the V00000 QuEEN! CHASE OF THE CENTURY! Berlin dragnet for U.S. Secret Agent and mystery beauty! VAN id oti NerF \ A YASicy rovide playground area forjin cities across Canada. GROWTH PROBLEM | It was vastly different a year| ago. Then the Coulsons lived in a| Robert Coulson, his wife and dilapidated house in a run-down | six children live in Phin Park, a section of Toronto's Riverdaie| Trying to obtain decent living| : in the sun." , = that | crime less often finds a breeding | place." { slum clearance is the staggering wh i] ., Taft of Winnipeg. ! find well-lighted streets, good, de- : cent living d + int venile delinquency as a by -pro-| p super says| duct of such run-down surround- some TE er areas are scat-| ings. tered through the east side of the| No matter what the city or|central area. He adds that there town, crime is spawned in slum are no specific plans for rehabil- areas," says Police Chief Robert itation now because "if we tore "Where you!down one area," we'd be demol- ishing some adequate houses." Regina's : is on the outer fringes. These areas were annexed in 1951. One|, relocation project covering 450 acres already has been carried out with federal-provincial aid. It involved removal of 50 properties at a cost of $250,000. A scheme now under study would clear about 350 other homes, Winnipeg's urban renewal board is preparing for a $10,000, 000 plan in two phases. A public Ant tions and Aas: room for the sun and fresh air to penetrate, you will find your troubles will vanish as fog does subst Montreal police chief J. Albert Langlois said '"'we are assuming better housing conditions will result in the high family morale and security in which 170T UNANIMOUS A different view Is expressed in .Vancouver. Deputy Police Chief Gordon Ambrose, asked if slums breed juveni' delinquency, said: "Not necessarily. We have a lot of juvenile delinquents in some pretty high-class areas." A major stumbling block to displaced persons. Public hous- ing would then go up where slum buildings were torn down, provid- ing 495 new units. The city's slums are in the central and north - central sections, mostly| near railway yards. | cost. David B. former| Toronto planners are tacking president, of Colo ib lost gage) [ices projects, Priority goes to|? an - acre oss Park area| just retired as Shatrnal o {the where 5,300 people live just east Metropolitan Toronto Housing Au-of the downtown district. A two: thority, says: "The cost to clear| year $13,500,000 program will de- subsissdard amd su ales ~ mols oi housvig and Drovide ana 1 modern homes, parks and instit- an acre and higher if there is a' ytional Tay high commercial and industrial 4 content in the area that is to be! 13,000 PEOPLE * cleared." J icipal cost-sharing of public hous- Ee 20-year period, B Total cost is estimated at $100,- Nl 000,000. The Mo § and False Creek flats district ~ d people live. Cost of acquiring and 6-2 jw "a fia 4 ¥ quarters for people like the Coul- i E. Stewart Bishop, welfare de-| Next in line is Alexandra Park| In the last 10 years, 3,350 sub-|2 mile west of downtown with 70 sidized rental housing units have! acres and 4,000 people. No time-| been built across Canada as been set. Later the city the National Housing Act provi-|! intends to rehabilitate a 150-acre al-pr ial-mun-|in Riverdale, about a mile east| gig for federalprovipe} I downtown, where 9,000 people| in7 projects. Since 1950, when live. they ware first authorized, 6,550, Toronto has almos public housing units have been one major project, built but 3,200 of them are "full Park development t comnleted the Regent in the old housing project of about 68 units i would be built to accommodate Cabbagetown district near the heart of the city. Some 7,500 have been rehoused in subsidized apartment blocks. "There has been a fantastic drop in crime and in the need for welfare services" in the Re- gent Park area, says Turner Davis of the city planning author. ity. Hamilton is engaged in remov- ing 192 r and cial buildings in a 175-acre area where 745 people live. Cost of acquiring property is estimated at $2,000,000. Eventually public loy-remal housing will be pro- vided. POTENTIAL SLU At Windsor, Ont., a redevelop- ment scheme to cost $1,200,000 is the offing for several city blocks with 100 families. Authori- ties say it is not a slum clearance project but that the area in five years would develop into a slum. Housing and welfare authori- t'~s in Ottawa say the capital has no actual slums but that pockets o frendown housing exist nd one subsidized rental at Mulgrave Park on the outskirts is due to be finished by this autumn. Biggest problem in St. John's, Mfd., is in fringe areas where 10 per cent of the population of 197,000 live in substandard hous-| ing. Civic officials say there are 000,000 of the city's share. new construction is borne' ent by federal funds and cent by onmtreal. The was begun in 1957 and is completed by July, 1961. 796 dwellings, 245 are al- ready occupied. BIG BLIGHTED AREA A survey in 1954 designated 13 sectors of Montreal as slum areas, Present estimated popula- tion of these derelict districts is 105,000. They are jammed int the old east-central section of downtown Montreal and into the Cote St. Paul section between the Lachine Canal and Verdun, Quebec City has isolated cases of shoddy and decrepit housing. Council has appointed a commit- tee to study housing as a "first step in a slu - clearance pro- ject." The first major scheme in Saint John, N.B., is to be started this year with razing of 12 blocks of old wooden tenements in the east end. Modern apartment buildings with rents geared to income of NEWS IN BRIEF BAN BIKINIS LISBON (AP) -- New beach sorts bar women in Bikini suits, some 200 buildings in the city|and provide small fifies for men unfit to live in. Officials have caught wearing underwear expressed hope that quarters at (shorts instead of proper bathing Pepperrell US. air force base trunks. will become available for tempor-| ary housing with the departure| of the Americans. LIVELY, START QUIMPERLE, Francg (AP)-- Newly-weds Pierre ald . Robardel sped away from BOMB SCARE | ceremony _and spent their first (DRX CF)_Polke veg Tghing 8 foc rs, Th office where a parcel was giving jhe si po hi Fras to trees. out a whirring noise. After evac- po ("niu they had the help of uating nearby staff, the parcel ing the Ix 5 Fucket of water, 2 fire brigade in gelling hw a battery - operated| |blaze under control. COMBINED EFFORT razor that had somehow been NECKARS HU LM, Germany J switched on in transit. | |(AP)--A West German-Egyptian {auto is in the works, Makers of {the German Prinz car signed a if a car has passed the pointicontract to deliver the chassis where it can stop safely has been to the Egyptian Automotive Com~ SENSITIVE SIGNAL A traffic light that stays green) is being considered. Welfare com- missioner H. P. Goodfellow says Ottawa needs 200 units to meet the existings hortage. Under way in ontreal is one of the biggest slum - clearance projects. Known as Les Habita- tions Jeanne ance, it covers 19.7 acres of former~gslums in the east - central secfor. When fin- ished, it will comprise 28 apart- |ment blocks faci landscaped parks and squares. Total cost is | estimated at $17,000,000. Of that amount, $7,500,000 has) {been spent on acquiring and |clearing land. The city and fed- er' government are sharing the initial cost equally except that the Quebec government is pay- recovery" projects with ele] scaled to recover amortization costs. Phin Park isin this cate- gory. f The federal government puts up 75 per cent of the cost of this »ublic housing with the provinces and municipalities sharing" the other 25 per cent at varying ratio§. The federal government also pays 75 per cent of any rental subsidy. VANCOUVER PROGRA Vancouver has an ambitious redevelopment program in the planning stage. Scheduled for a it involves about 20,000 people. ABOUT THE PREDICAMENT 1,000 acres and area extends in a huge ring around the False Creek near the downtown business dis- trict. The first stage, just given fed- eral approval, involves 27 acres in blighted pockets where 1,600 clearing the land is $5,250,000 and building of public housing will be $3,400,000. The area to be razed is in the east-end just off Hast- ings street and construction is expected to begin early next year. Housing officials in Calgary say the city has no serious prob- w lem now but a civic report warns i that "a further 25 years could give rise to four or five square miles of slums," OUTER FRINGES Edmonton eivic officials say the problem fis not urgent though ADULT ENTERTAINMENT SEE LAST THURSDAY'S PAP BILLY foamed WILDER'S FUNNY-SAD CALLED LIFE! 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