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Weekend video: Rooming houses – How the North End and Dartmouth gentrified

Weekend video: Rooming houses – How the North End and Dartmouth gentrified

June 20, 2020 1 Comment

In 1995 there were 156 rooming houses in Halifax and Dartmouth. In 2016 there were fewer than 20 left. This video looks at the reasons why. Greed (aka capitalism) is the obvious reason, but urban planners and poor bashing media also played a role.

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