By Staff
May 6th, 2024
BURLINGTON, ON
A census tract is a small, relatively stable geographic area that usually has a population between 2,500 and 8,000 persons. With one exception, the census tract which includes North Oakville has a population of over 21,000 in the 2021 Census.
Analyzing the distribution pattern can help identify communities where core housing need is most prevalent. It can shed light on underlying contributing socio-economic factors.
The information can reveal how households in core housing need are distributed in relation to essential services and amenities, such as healthcare facilities, schools, public transportation and employment centres.
There are clusters of racialized households in core housing in Oakville and Milton. In Burlington and Halton Hills, the households are more dispersed.
The dots relate to the number of racialized homes; the colours indicate the number of racialized homes and where they are located. This is not good news data.
The inmates (woke mob) are running the asylum and too many government workers studying useless things? This is beyond ridiculous, having grown up 50 years ago in Burlington core in a neighborhood of Polish, Italian, Croatian, Ukrainian immigrants. Why, these were new homes at the time and were available on mass for new immigrants. Schools were newly built at the time, and people wanted to be close to friends that also came to Canada. Common sense?
BTW, that a horrible word… “racialized”, so demeaning to anyone that is a proud new Canadian.
I occasionally protest the use of the term “racialized”, since with proper etymology this is a verb. Using it as an adjective implies that someone woke up one day to find they were somehow processed and became “racial”. (see “finalized”, “hospitalized”, “mobilized”, etc.)
I grew up in what todays parlance would be referred to as a “ racialized” household. I am glad society at the time were not inclined to label the home of many fond memories as a “racialized” home or place a dot on the map to identify our home as such. About 20% of the homes in the village I grew up in at the time would have been dotted. The only things that should be labeled are inanimate objects.
What pray tell are Racialized Homes.?