When I was a poor student in Toronto there were lots of rooming houses and cheap hotels; those have all been fire coded, by-lawed and gentrified. Even a basement, single bedroom apartment is pretty much out of reach of somebody making minimum wage, let alone somebody scrapping by working odd jobs and odd hours.
It's not just the size of cities, as a culture we are deliberately exacerbating the impact of wealth disparity.
It's not just the size of cities, as a culture we are deliberately exacerbating the impact of wealth disparity.