[URBAN NOTE] Six city links: California, Toronto, Vancouver, Saint John, LA, NYC, Philadelphia

[rfmcdonald]

• Wired notes a bill proposed at the state level in California to force cities to provide affordable and accessible housing through non-NIMBY zoning.


• The Toronto and Vancouver housing markets, perhaps uniquely among the markets of Canada's major cities, are not seeing as much new supply as others. The Globe and Mail reports.
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• The population of Saint John, New Brunswick, has fallen by a quarter since 1971. The city government wants to change this, somehow. Global News notes.


• VICE reports a new census of homelessness in Los Angeles, amid fears of locals that prior estimates might be undercounts.


• The mystery of what happened to Princess Pamela, a famous soul food cook whose Harlem restaurant was famous to those in the know, is explored in this thought-provoking essay.


• At Slate, Annie Risemberg explores how old connections to Liberia and ethnic restaurants helped a corner of southwestern Philadelphia become "Little Africa", a destination of note for West African immigrants.

Comments

[tavella]

Huh, the Princess Pamela story is interesting. I wonder how they managed to reissue the book if they couldn't find her or the heirs to her literary rights? And I wonder where any royalties are going?