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Can cities survive gentrification? In this mini-documentary, we explore Hull in Gatineau, Quebec, as a striking example of how gentrification impacts urban life. Discover how development not only reshapes neighborhoods but also erases history, displaces culture, and uproots the lives of residents. From the historical streets of Hull to the voices of the community, this video unpacks the consequences of urban renewal and asks whether there is a better way forward for our cities.
Key topics covered include:
The true cost of gentrification in Hull, Gatineau
How gentrification destroys cultural heritage and local identity
Displacement of people due to urban renewal
The human side of gentrification and its impact on residents
The impact on the National Capital Region and surrounding areas
Join us as we question whether cities can truly survive the pressures of gentrification.
Keywords: Gentrification, Hull Quebec, Gatineau, Urban Displacement, Cultural Heritage, Mini Documentary, Urban Renewal, History and Culture, Quebec Cities, Can Cities Survive Gentrification, Urban Planning, Community Voices, Documentary on Gentrification, Urban Development, Neighborhood Change, Social Impact, Local Community Stories, Fighting Gentrification, National Capital Region, Ottawa, Gatineau History, Neighborhood Redevelopment, Ottawa-Gatineau, Urban Issues, Everything In Between, Regional Development.
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I appreciate how you center Starbucks as the dull face of gentrification
I was born and raised in Vancouver. You can probably work out the rest for yourself. It was and still is a unique place with many fond memories for me. Nowhere else I've lived has truly felt like home, and I suspect nowhere else will. I still consider myself a Vancouverite even though I haven't lived there in nearly a decade. A part of me hopes to move back someday, but another part is afraid that if I do, I'll find that the Vancouver I knew and loved is gone forever.
People like to attribute gentrification with 1) a growing population, 2) a aging population, 3) new trends (incl. Starbucks), all of which are part of life, and can't be stopped. What a city needs to do is make sure enough housing is being built so that new residents including descendants of original residents find a place to live. The problem is some people think that by blocking housing construction, they will stop gentrification, but studies show it does not, it only pushes away previous residents to make room for wealthier residents.
You wouldn't tell by its title but this video is actually about Hull's history! I really enjoyed it!
I have conflicting views on gentrification. I live in a historical working-class neighbourhood. In the 1940's, 1950's and 1960's, it was a thriving community. But, the deindustrialization of the 1980's and 1990's brought massive unemployment, poverty, crime, prostitution and drugs. To counteract this situation, the city invested in public services and urban development and green-lighting projects to convert old abandoned factories into condo units (some in social housing as well). The lower rents or housing prices were appealing to students, young families and first time home-buyers, displacing low-income residents in the process. Slowly, the community started to change and so were the commercial options. The pawn shops and fast-food joints gave their place to bakeries, cafés and speciality shops. Today, it's still not a wealthy neighbourhood, but it's far from what it used to be when it was one of the poorest neighbourhood in Canada. But, I understand long-time residents who now feel priced out of their neighbourhood by the rent increase and don't recognized themselves in this new community. Doing nothing and keeping the neighbourhood like it was, is not an option, but bettering it will inevitably attract newcomers and drive the price up to the detriment of its historical population. We can improve the access to social housing and off-market housing units, but, for some, any change to its demography is viewed as a bad thing.
Great video and nice new name ❤
I'm glad you like it ‘
If you're making the analysis based on the assertion that ile de hull should remain a low income neighbourhood then i see where youre coming from. But when i moved here 12 years ago it was nothing but a crumbling neighbourhood, with majority of people struggling to maintain their own houses. Its time for new people with new demographics to keep the neighbourhood alive. With its location, it'll be impossible to keep it a low income, low cost place, especially with limited industrial employers on the island.
I completely agree that the current population just doesn’t have the necessary capital to maintain the buildings, my issue is more the fact that we aren’t building lower income high density homes, but replacing low income low density homes by high density luxury appartements, there should be the place for both but one is much more profitable for developers
@@TheUrbaniqueI love the idea of building low cost high density buildings. It really is a noble cause. But unfortunately that's not how real estate economics seem to work. Le We will become one if not properly maintained nor rebuilt, in 50 years. What is shiny and expensive today will someday be lower income housing, just like how many of the duplexes and triplexes in old hull have become. There will be a threshold for every building and the market will see an opportunity for a rebuild, and the cycle continues, not just here, but everywhere.
It's Capitalism. Supposed to be the greatest thing since sliced bread - but it isn't. But yes, cities are organic and they change - in our system (the US), the change is dictated by economic forces über Alles. If real people's lives happen to get in the way, well, that's the way it goes. Capitalism dictates it.
It puts a huge strain on society in terms of the tensions these competing value systems create. We really need to decide which is more important in the US - people or money. Christian principles ("Love thy neighbor") or profits. It doesn't have to be this way
I think the biggest problem with housing is that people have not been empowered to build the city they cherish. So people live in these locations they develop a rich culture in but they don't have the means or power to grow it, leaving them to 2 choices. Rot in a location with no growth or get displaced. By development by outsiders.
Developers are often the only people who can build. So when they do they build big and expensive. While if the local community was allowed to grow on its own it could have grown in an organic way overtime that would meet the needs of its community and maintain its culture and identity while also making room for other cultures and identities.
I think you’re straight on the point, many of these homes are beautiful but clearly have not been maintained and the only people who can are developers who prefer starting from scratch then having the headache of working on a 100 year old + building
@TheUrbanique If they could grow naturally they would have adequate housing and toppled housing as needed. Not every house should stay up. Everyone can't live in single-family detached homes. But when you make it so only developers can build, when you do build it's a mass slaughter and what you build to replace it is never cheap enough for the people you displaced to remain and the culture people moved for is erased, and yet people want to LARP as if they are maintaining a culture and history that no longer exists. The geriatric hippies of yesteryear in San Francisco are still acting as if they're the same free-spirited starflower they were when they bought their home for $2000 and blow job on a cashier's salary.
Putting jokes aside, Vieux-Hull was long over due for a make over. We need more place for new people. The town went down in flames multiple time. Now, this part of town was neutralized in the 90's (see Petit Chicago Documentary). So, we need the new air. Pi le cost of living était déjà trop élevé pour les vieilles places merdiques. Au moins, on va avoir un beau coin maintenant. Y'a pas de culture à perdre autre que drogues et alcool. Sorry but not sorry.
Cities ARE "Gentrification." "Gentrification" IS the process of urban development. They are one in the same.
Great video like always! I wanted to ask you if you live in Gatineau as well. Greetings from Aylmer sector!
I used to, I currently live a few hours away from Ottawa-Gatineau but it’s a city / cities that I love!
Ah Hull, the place where 18 year olds from Ottawa go to drink when they can't drink in Ontario. Or at least that's how the island was viewed by young Anglos from Ottawa.
L'embourgeoisement c'est tellement le faux problème le plus stupide. Ce que t'appelle la "gentrification" c'est simplement que le monde habitant dans le quartier s'enrichit. J'habite dans le même quartier depuis 20 ans mais je suis passé d'un 2 et demi miteux à un condo luxueux parce que mes revenus ont beaucoup augmenté. Et c'est la même chose pour mes voisins. Ce qui permet à de nouvelles boutiques et de nouveau restos de s'implanter. C'est totalement un embourgeoisement, et c'est ultimement au bénéfice de tout le monde. Tu veux qu'on fasse quoi? Qu'on se bâtisse des McMansions en banlieue et qu'on se tape 1h30 de route pour venir travailler en ville?
I think I’ve mention in the comments a few times that I believe what’s needed is public investment into low income high density housing INSIDE of hull, I am all for revitalizing a neighbourhood but not when there is no housing plan for those who get displaced. There’s countless research that wages haven’t kept up pace with income, if yours has its great but that doesn’t mean everyone else has been able to have that much career growth
C'est tellement le genre de contenu que j'adore pi c'est drette icite à f*cking Hu2L!!!! LET'S GO!!!!