Life Stories of Displacement opened up a bottom up critique of our relationships and ways we see the world. The interview was recorded through a partnership between the Social Development Centre Waterloo Region and University of Waterloo School of Planning in the summer of 2019 to make sure the history or displacement is not lost. 

"Well my thoughts is that there’s a lot of people on social assistance out there needing housing, like cheap affordable housing. They’re tearing these houses down, like two and three-bedroom houses that they could rent out cheap to the low-income people... A house or even an old factory that’s closed up, and make rooms, put somebody out there for supervision, be somebody always there that – somebody so many hours there. Run the place, give everybody rooms to live in or apartments to live in. It’d be better than tearing it down, and build a big condo..." Life Stories of Displacement are made to do not let us forget how we are building our cities and to mitigate the impact on marginalized, low income population, created in collaboration with Professor Brian Doucet at the School of Planning at University of Waterloo.

"If you get a rooming house here and this guy's got a million dollar house here, right, there's going to be some push to get the rooming house out, right. Because, it's lowering his property value, right. And, you know, a rooming house it's not the greatest place in the world, but it's providing a bit of a service where people can live, right. Because, it's hard as hell to live up there right now, right." Life Stories of Displacement are made to do not let us forget how we are building our cities and to mitigate the impact on marginalized, low income population, created in collaboration with Professor Brian Doucet at the School of Planning at University of Waterloo.

We wish to stress the point that residents living on low income are a highly diverse population, and in a limited number of interviews, we encountered people who have post secondary education and are in precarious employment, homeowners, business-owners and low income earners, social assistance recipients and recipients of the Canada Disability Pension. We recorded the life stories thanks to the partnership with the University of Waterloo professor Brian Doucet and staff from St John Kitchen in the summer of 2019. We hope that a range of voices previously absent from the urban development planning strategies in Kitchener and Waterloo will be at the core of the affordable housing strategy planning in Waterloo Region.

We wish to stress the point that residents living on low income are a highly diverse population, and in a limited number of interviews, we encountered people who have post secondary education and are in precarious employment, homeowners, business-owners and low income earners, social assistance recipients and recipients of the Canada Disability Pension. We recorded the life stories thanks to the partnership with the University of Waterloo professor Brian Doucet and staff from St John Kitchen in the summer of 2019. We hope that a range of voices previously absent from the urban development planning strategies in Kitchener and Waterloo will be at the core of the affordable housing strategy planning in Waterloo Region.

Life Stories of Displacement: We wish to stress the point that residents living on low income are a highly diverse population, and in a limited number of interviews, we encountered people who have post secondary education and are in precarious employment, homeowners, business-owners and low income earners, social assistance recipients and recipients of the Canada Disability Pension. We recorded the life stories thanks to the partnership with the University of Waterloo professor Brian Doucet and staff from St John Kitchen in the summer of 2019. We hope that a range of voices previously absent from the urban development planning strategies in Kitchener and Waterloo will be at the core of the affordable housing strategy planning in Waterloo Region.

We wish to stress the point that residents living on low income are a highly diverse population, and in a limited number of interviews, we encountered people who have post secondary education and are in precarious employment, homeowners, business-owners and low income earners, social assistance recipients and recipients of the Canada Disability Pension. We recorded the life stories thanks to the partnership with the University of Waterloo professor Brian Doucet and staff from St John Kitchen in the summer of 2019. We hope that a range of voices previously absent from the urban development planning strategies in Kitchener and Waterloo will be at the core of the affordable housing strategy planning in Waterloo Region.

Social Development Centre Waterloo Region supported the study 'Neighbourhood Change along LRT' by Professor Brian Doucet from the School of Planning at the University of Waterloo and recruited interviewees living on low income to participate in the oral history project about their experience of displacement in the age of gentrification. We are committed to turning up the volume on life stories that need to be a part of the affordable housing strategy planning in Waterloo Region.

Social Development Centre Waterloo Region supported the study 'Neighbourhood Change along LRT' by Professor Brian Doucet from the School of Planning at the University of Waterloo and recruited interviewees living on low income to participate in the oral history project about their experience of displacement in the age of gentrification. We are committed to turning up the volume on life stories that need to be a part of the affordable housing strategy planning in Waterloo Region.

Social Development Centre Waterloo Region supported the study 'Neighbourhood Change along LRT' by Professor Brian Doucet from the School of Planning at the University of Waterloo and recruited interviewees living on low income to participate in the oral history project about their experience of displacement in the age of gentrification. We are committed to turning up the volume on life stories that need to be a part of the affordable housing strategy planning in Waterloo Region. 

Life Stories of Displacement are meant to turn up the volume of marginalized voices in the conversations about displacement and truly affordable housing in the urban core of Kitchener and Waterloo 2019-2020.