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title: Knowing Where You've Been to Know Where You're Headed
description: The Neighbourhood Change Research Partnership is a great data resource for municipal leaders working on developing or strengthening policies and programs for inequality.
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# Knowing Where You've Been to Know Where You're Headed
Posted on January 12, 2018
[By Heather Keam](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/author/heather-keam)
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I was reading an article in the Philanthropist, [*How social service agencies can help build a collaborative and caring economy*](https://thephilanthropist.ca/2017/12/how-social-service-agencies-can-help-build-a-collaborative-and-caring-economy/?utm_source=The+Philanthropist&utm_campaign=ebe5cd1c9d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_01_09&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5ad5e4eaea-ebe5cd1c9d-26724217)*, *where Rob Howarth speaks to the trends of growing economic inequality and geographic segregation in Canadian communities.
If you are like me, I click on the links as I read them. In doing so, I landed on a great website about building community change and building inclusive communities from within: [the Neighbourhood Change Research Partnership.](http://neighbourhoodchange.ca)
This partnership identifies and maps trends in neighbourhood income inequality in six Canadian cities. For those of you who like data and trends and working in neighbourhood development, this website is for you!
What I like about the website is that it merges information on income inequality, poverty, rental housing, and neighbourhood typology.
The website’s Neighbourhood Typology section shares an insightful research publication on neighbourhood trends from 1981-2006, focused on 24 census variables relating to:
- Economic status;
- Family Status;
- Immigration and ethnic status;
- Migrant status; and,
- Housing status.
This research identifies three new social spatial formations that researchers concluded were important for understanding change in the social structure of Canadian census metropolitan areas: Gentrification, Exclusionary enclaves, and Formation of new ethnic enclaves.
This website is a great read for municipal leaders who are developing policies and programs for inequality, and for those working to strengthen old ones. Data can be used to place where your city relates to the 6 cities (Halifax, Montréal, Toronto, Winnipeg, Calgary, and Vancouver). This paper helps to understand where we have been, which can help us know where we need to go!
Go deeper:
- [How social service agencies can help build a collaborative and caring economy](https://thephilanthropist.ca/2017/12/how-social-service-agencies-can-help-build-a-collaborative-and-caring-economy/?utm_source=The+Philanthropist&utm_campaign=ebe5cd1c9d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_01_09&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5ad5e4eaea-ebe5cd1c9d-26724217)
- [Neighbourhood Change Research Partnership](http://neighbourhoodchange.ca/homepage/how-neighbourhoods-are-changing/)
- [Connecting the Power of People to the Power of Place: How Community-Based Organizations Influence Neighbourhood Collective Agency](http://neighbourhoodchange.ca/documents/2016/12/neighbourhood-collective-agency.pdf)
- [Toronto’s Inner Suburbs: Investing in Social Infastructure in Scarborough](http://neighbourhoodchange.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/64113f170718639551771c3148c4bb73.pdf)
Topics:
[Neighbourhood Strategy](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/topic/neighbourhood-strategy), [Heather Keam](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/topic/heather-keam), [Cities Deepening Community](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/topic/cities-deepening-community)
### By [Heather Keam](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/author/heather-keam)
Heather works with municipalities and organizations to build strategies that put people at the center using Asset-Based Community Development. With over 22 years of experience in community development, she uses an ABCD approach to center people and belonging in the development of community plans and strategies through coaching and training staff teams, facilitation, and writing about ABCD and Belonging. She has a passion for the power of people and believes that people and communities are the solutions to local problems. She believes that we need to build a sense of community belonging so that people are connected to their community, and their place within it and get involved in decision-making. She also believes that municipalities need to shift the way they show up in community from doing “for” to supporting communities to do themselves.
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