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- Title
Secondary suites, second-class citizens: The history and geography of Calgary's most controversial housing policy.
- Authors
van der Poorten, Kylee; Miller, Byron
- Abstract
Secondary suites have been a contentious topic in Calgary's municipal politics for the past three decades-despite a physical location that is, in a granular sense, often concealed. To date, policymakers in Calgary have opted to retain strict zoning restrictions for suites in established suburban areas. Using municipal spatial data and mapping techniques, we locate a considerable number of these rental units and foreground these findings with a qualitative analysis of the historical politics and policies that have shaped Calgary's approach to secondary suite management. A significant finding is that practices of neighbourhood governance have worked in tandem with zoning controls to discipline and/or exclude 'unwelcome' neighbours, producing a distinct geography of unauthorized secondary suites concentrated in low-income and immigrant-oriented neighbourhoods. Evidence suggests that long-standing material interests, including but not limited to class, continue to shape Calgary's most controversial housing policy.
- Subjects
CANADA; HOUSING policy; URBAN planning; MUNICIPAL government; IMMIGRANTS; POOR people
- Publication
Canadian Geographer, 2017, Vol 61, Issue 4, p564
- ISSN
0008-3658
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/cag.12425