Yeah, it's been moving westward incredibly quickly, and in an incredibly homogenous fashion. I've been told, though, that because of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, there's an offsite slot for housing for people who go there that's fixed, or something like that, and hence will keep part of "that" "element" there. (Historically, I'm told, the area became kind of shabby partly because so many people coming off drug addictions or who had mental health issues (i.e. the typically unemployable) would naturally set up shop around CAMH. I probably got most of that wrong, though.
In any case, Queen West gentrification is sort of a whole beast unto itself.
― edb, Tuesday, 27 December 2011 18:19 (twelve years ago) link