2024-2025 SOAN Seminar Series

Title: Racialized Disinvestment and Displacement in Toronto

Abstract: Around the world, several forms of dispossession and displacement have become a common contributing factor to housing insecurity and homelessness. Formal and informal forms of these twin themes are experienced overwhelmingly by vulnerable populations, including low-income households, single parents, and minoritized groups even within multicultural societies. This presentation explores the scale and distribution of evictions across neighbourhoods within the City of Toronto’s to understand the risk of displacement for different ethnoracial communities. 

Bio: Dr. Prentiss Dantzler is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Founding Director of the Housing Justice Lab within the School of Cities at the University of Toronto. As an interdisciplinary community-engaged scholar, his work focuses on focuses on how and why neighbourhoods change and the extent to which policymakers, institutions, and local denizens create and react to those changes. Prentiss received his Ph.D. in Public Affairs and M.S. in Community Development from Rutgers University-Camden. He also holds an M.P.A. from West Chester University and a B.S. from Penn State University.