Editing Gentrification (section)

===Canada===
{{further|Gentrification of Vancouver}}
By the 1970s, investors in Toronto started buying up city houses—turning them into temporary [[rooming house]]s to make rental income until the desired price in the housing market for selling off the properties was reached (so that the rooming houses could be replaced with high income-oriented new housing)—a gentrification process called "blockbusting".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.urbancenter.utoronto.ca/pdfs/curp/1994_HistoryofRoomingHousesinToronto_Campsie.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://www.urbancenter.utoronto.ca/pdfs/curp/1994_HistoryofRoomingHousesinToronto_Campsie.pdf |archive-date=9 October 2022 |url-status=live |title=A Brief History of Rooming Houses in Toronto, 1972-94 |last=Campsie |first=Philippa |date=1994 |website=www.urbancenter.utoronto.ca |publisher=Rupert Community Residential Services|access-date=10 November 2018 }}</ref>

{{As of|2011}}, gentrification in Canada has proceeded quickly in older and denser cities such as [[Montreal]], [[Toronto]], [[Ottawa]], [[Hamilton, Ontario|Hamilton]] and [[Vancouver]], but has barely begun in places such as Calgary, Edmonton, or Winnipeg, where suburban expansion is still the primary type of growth.

Canada's unique history and official multiculturalism policy has resulted in a different strain of gentrification than that of the United States. Some gentrification in Toronto has been sparked by the efforts of business improvement associations to market the ethnic communities in which they operate, such as in Corso Italia and Greektown.<ref>{{harvnb|Hackworth |Rekers |2005}}{{page needed |date=May 2019}}</ref>

In [[Quebec City]], the [[Saint-Roch, Quebec City|Saint Roch]] neighbourhood in the city's lower town was previously predominantly working class and had gone through a period of decline. However, since the early to mid 2000s, the area has seen the transformation of the derelict buildings into condos and the opening of bars, restaurants and cafes, attracting young professionals into the area, but kicking out the residents from many generations back. Several software developers and gaming companies, such as Ubisoft and Beenox, have also opened offices there.