{"id":1277080,"date":"2015-11-03T03:03:51","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T08:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/2015\/11\/03\/its-a-difficult-situation-we-have-an-affordable\/"},"modified":"2015-11-03T03:17:18","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T08:17:18","slug":"its-a-difficult-situation-we-have-an-affordable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/2015\/11\/03\/its-a-difficult-situation-we-have-an-affordable\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIt\u2019s a difficult situation We have an affordable&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a difficult situation: We have an affordable housing crisis in the city right now, and the priority isn\u2019t on social justice; it\u2019s about this aesthetic economy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nDeborah Leslie, a geographer professor at U of T, has studied the city\u2019s transformation as manufacturing gave way to industries in line with the \u201ccreative city\u201d agenda. Artists, she fears, end up as a symbolic salve to nefarious process. \u201cWhile Artscape is doing important work, I think it is often being used to paper over and gather support for broader processes of gentrification and real estate development in the city,\u201d<\/p>\n<p><cite>http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/entertainment\/visualarts\/2013\/11\/23\/artscape_youngplace_school_is_now_in_session.html<\/cite><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a difficult situation: We have an affordable housing crisis in the city right now, and the priority isn\u2019t on social justice; it\u2019s about this aesthetic economy.\u201d Deborah Leslie, a geographer professor at U of T, has studied the city\u2019s transformation as manufacturing gave way to industries in line with the \u201ccreative city\u201d agenda. Artists, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[309,310,311],"views":745,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277080"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1277080"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1277083,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277080\/revisions\/1277083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1277080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1277080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1277080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}