[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Regina, Milwaukee, Atlanta, Masson-Angers, Richmond

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• Many of the old private clubs of Regina, including the Legion and ethnic community halls, are facing closure as their own user bases decline. Global News reports.


• CityLab notes the questionable plausibility of the goal of the city of Milwaukee to create ten thousand affordable homes to ease its housing crunch.


• Guardian Cities notes the significant threat posed by gentrification to poor, perhaps particularly African-American, neighbourhoods in Atlanta.


• National Observer notes that the small Québec town of Masson-Angers, near Ottawa, has been transformed by the growth of the cannabis industry there.


• This National Post article looks at the challenges facing the British Columbia city of Richmond, near Vancouver, in light of its Asian-majority population.