Is City Hall in Regina Saskatchewan intentionally "sorting" people into poor or wealthy neighbourhoods according to their income and their race? Living in poor neighborhoods isn't just an inconvenience. It's a huge factor in what our lives — and our children's lives — turn out to be (Chang, 2017). Children warehouses into low-income areas are at higher risk for health problems, developmental delays, & behaviour disorders & are more likely to live in poverty as adults (Conference Board of Canada, 2018).
Are disadvantaged and non-white families being intentionally warehoused into dangerous and harmful areas? The CPCG says that people in Regina are being physically and psychologically damaged by planning and development practices that promote economic & racial segregation and condensed poverty and that Aboriginal families especially are being harmed by these Regina City Hall practices.
The effects of exposure to disadvantaged, chaotic or violent neighborhood environments harm children for life. Research from developmental psychology, neuroscience, public health, economics and sociology has converged around the finding that early life experiences and environments have lasting effects on mental and physical health and developmental, academic, and economic outcomes (Sharkey, 2013).
