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Massive public housing projects in big cities, like Toronto's Regent Park (above) were criticized
Massive public housing projects in big cities, like Toronto's Regent Park (above) were criticized

Massive public housing projects in big cities, like Toronto's Regent Park (above) were criticized

Date11/20/1968
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Original Toronto Star caption: Massive public housing projects in big cities; like Toronto's Regent Park (above) were big cities; like Toronto's Regent Park (above) were criticized in report tabled today by Transport Minister Paul Hellyer's housing task force. The report urged the government to stop building such developments until a study of the problems they create can be made.
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    Dimensions17 cm (6 11/16 in.)
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      ProvenanceCourtesy: Toronto Star Photograph Archives
      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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      Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
      Object NumberTSPA_0113718F
      Sad-faced child stares out through broken window in one of 732 housing units in Toronto's run-down Regent Park South housing project
      Sad-faced child stares out through broken window in one of 732 housing units in Toronto's run-down Regent Park South housing project
      Olsen, Bob, 1931-2022
      11/20/1968
      Work on regent park housing project, first big Canadian slum-clearing project, already was under way when final go-ahead on the $10,000,000 job was re(...)
      Work on regent park housing project, first big Canadian slum-clearing project, already was under way when final go-ahead on the $10,000,000 job was re(...)
      Toronto Star (Firm)
      7/22/1948
      Regent park youth corps, a group of serious-minded young people who live in the Regent Park South Housing project, hold round table discussion on how (...)
      Regent park youth corps, a group of serious-minded young people who live in the Regent Park South Housing project, hold round table discussion on how (...)
      Olsen, Bob, 1931-2022
      12/30/1968
      The social housing developers are destroying the official plan, they want projects that are just too big'
      The social housing developers are destroying the official plan, they want projects that are just too big'
      City council members
      4/23/1991
      Housing projects such as Crombie Park, shown under construction, could produce thousands of new jobs for the hard-hit building trades where unemployme(...)
      Housing projects such as Crombie Park, shown under construction, could produce thousands of new jobs for the hard-hit building trades where unemployme(...)
      Beaty, Keith
      n.d.
      Midsummer harvest: Four-year-old Bryan Walsh is plenty proud of the head of cabbage his mom helped grow in the tiny garden plot tended by single mothers in Regent Park housing project
      Midsummer harvest: Four-year-old Bryan Walsh is plenty proud of the head of cabbage his mom helped grow in the tiny garden plot tended by single mothers in Regent Park housing project
      Stawicki, Andrew
      8/13/1987
      Regent Park (north) housing project
      Regent Park (north) housing project
      Housing Authority of Toronto
      4/9/1951
      Canada - Ontario - Toronto - Housing - Public - Regent Park
      Canada - Ontario - Toronto - Housing - Public - Regent Park
      Eglinton, Rick
      n.d.
      Centre of controversy between the Toronto Housing Authority and the city's parks and recreation committee is this courtyard at Regent Park North, show(...)
      Centre of controversy between the Toronto Housing Authority and the city's parks and recreation committee is this courtyard at Regent Park North, show(...)
      Olsen, Bob, 1931-2022
      4/14/1967
      Ready for battle: Members of Intelligarde International, a heavy-hitting security company that patrols gang-infested housing projects, often wear full riot gear and use guard dogs
      Ready for battle: Members of Intelligarde International, a heavy-hitting security company that patrols gang-infested housing projects, often wear full riot gear and use guard dogs
      Slaughter, Mike
      7/16/1991
      Second in voting to Mrs. Campbell was another woman, June Marks, She, too, is interested in housing, slum clearance and urban renewal projects. Many o(...)
      Second in voting to Mrs. Campbell was another woman, June Marks, She, too, is interested in housing, slum clearance and urban renewal projects. Many o(...)
      Marks, June
      12/6/1966
      Power Projects: Quebec natives are trying to stop hydro stations like this one on La Grande River from being built in Great Whale project, indicated on map
      Power Projects: Quebec natives are trying to stop hydro stations like this one on La Grande River from being built in Great Whale project, indicated on map
      Henton, Darcy
      3/1/1991