Chinatown BIA slams study calling area food desert
The head of Ottawa s Chinatown BIA says she was shocked by a recent report that concluded residents of the downtown neighbourhood lack sufficient food choices.
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Posted: Dec 13, 2020 5:00 AM ET | Last Updated: December 13, 2020
A woman walks down Somerset Street with a grocery cart in Ottawa s Chinatown neighbourhood on Sept. 2, 2020. There are several smaller grocery stores in the West Centretown area. (Andrew Lee/CBC)
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The little house behind us, where the same family lived for 70-plus years, sold this summer for more than $700,000 and as is commonplace, if not inevitable now will be torn down.
When people talk about “housing affordability” in Ottawa, it really means $700,000 in a modest, central neighbourhood buys you a piece of dirt, 50 by 100. Pity our children, pity our poor.
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Housing affordability is at the heart of a new report about the future of “West Centretown,” or that area that takes in Chinatown and Little Italy, from Carling Avenue in the south to the edge of LeBreton Flats in the north.