dec 9, 1959 - Documented Housing Discrimination against Black Persons
Description:
"In Toronto... over 60 percent of landlords surveyed stated they would not be comfortable renting to Blacks (Mosher 1998: 95--98 in Mathieu 2010). Even orphans were housed separately. In Nova Scotia, Black orphans were placed in a separate home for 'coloured' children until the 1960s (Bernard and Bernard 2002). Segregation that barred Black families from housing played an important role in preventing Black economic mobility."Source: Robyn Maynard. Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present (2017). Page 37.
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Date:
dec 9, 1959
Now
~ 65 years ago