New immigrants to GTA choosing suburbs over city, Uof T study finds
Natalie Alcoba, National Post
Published: Tuesday, April 01, 2008
Almost all new immigrants to the Toronto area are settling in its suburbs, according to a new study that differentiates between two groups of newcomers based on where they can afford to live. The wealthier demographic, primarily well-educated immigrants from India and China who come to Canada with substantial wealth, is gravitating toward Mississauga, Brampton, pictured, parts of Scarborough, Markham and Richmond Hill. They buy outright and plug into increasingly entrenched ethnic enclaves that remind them, to varying degrees, of home. In contrast, the relatively low-income immigrants from Asian, African and South American countries end up cramming large households into rental units located in "areas of extensive poverty," predominantly in the "inner suburbs" of Rexdale, North York and Scarborough, says the report from the University of Toronto's Centre for Urban and Community Studies.
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