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Most people think that slums are a feature of US inner cities. But many Canadians would be shocked to find that housing conditions in some parts of Toronto are as bad or worse than in New York, Chicago or Los Angeles.

Many people even come to Toronto from the so-called Third World to find housing conditions worse then what they left at home.

Toronto's slums are populated by the working poor, people on fixed incomes and recent immigrants. The rents are generally not that much less than "cleaner" better maintained buildings.

But often these better buildings are not accessible to the poor or new immigrants. There is a hidden but clear pattern of discriminatory rental practices.

We are creating ghettoes.

They are clustered in various parts of the city.

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