ANC begins in Scarborough Village : Action for neighborhood change begins in Scarborough Village

This ments, a Golden Mile of strip malls and a well series of stories presents each of the five developed road system defined Scarborough as a ANC neighbourhoods as they existed at bedroom community suited to middle-income the start of the initiative. [...] In the spring of 2003, a group of about 40 people began to In the late 1980s, homeless families were meet regularly to discuss how to communicate a worrisome addition to Toronto’s homeless Scarborough’s multicultural personality and needs population and no downtown shelters existed to to city councillors. [...] We are very pleased to participate in the ANC project The United Way of Greater Toronto’s to get a better understanding of how the community current approach to community development was development approach unfolds at the neighbour- influenced by the 1999 report entitled Taking hood level – the human and financial resources Caledon Institute of Social Policy. [...] Residents and service providers for the neighbourhood to be a good match to the want to right the imbalance, and we are very selection criteria but also that residents express a hopeful that the community building and level of interest and commitment to the initiative. [...] Neighbourhood selection, Toronto-style Neighbourhood description Faced with the task of selecting one of The portion of Scarborough Village 140 potential neighbourhoods for the focus of selected as the ANC neighbourhood is bounded ANC, UWGT staff began to look at parts of the by the CN railroad to the north, Bellamy Road to city with high newcomer representation, high levels the west, Scarborough