Here's a definition of Northdale
straight off Wikipedia:
A student ghetto is a residential neighbourhood, usually in proximity to a college or university, that houses mostly students. Due to the youth and relative poverty of the students, most of the the housing is rented, with some cooperatives. Landlords have little incentive to properly maintain the housing stock, since they know that they can always find tenants. Non-students tend to leave the area because of the noise and raucous behavior of the students. Most modern student ghettos arose from the rise in post-secondary enrollment after World War II. Many colleges and universities became unable to house all their students, while homeowners in adjacent neighborhoods fled from the influx of students. Such neighbourhoods often took over from faculty and other affluent (permanent) residents, as the housing stock in these areas deteriorated.
4 comments:
What a bunch of bs from a few uptight Waterloo residents. I guess they dont remember when they were young and going to school.
If Wikipedia says it, IT MUST BE TRUE
Is there anyone who can seriously state that a neighbourhood of students isn't low-income? Or that an area that is over 95% student occupied isn't a student ghetto? The term student ghetto has been used for years, and Waterloo has one. Only 30 houses left are owner-occupied out of 300 single family homes in 2004.
Look at the lawn parking, the garbage, the broken glass...
Look at the break-ins during summer, reading week, etc.
How can anyone argue that this area isn't a student ghetto, wiki credibility aside.
People today shouldn't assume their behaviour, even today, is the norm among the majority of students attending either of the universities in Waterloo.
Today's partiers might want to know that in previous generations this behaviour was not the norm, even in this area, and that then, as now, the majority of university attendees were not drunkenly destroying the quality of life and resale value of neighbourhood properties.
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