Living through a Pandemic in the Shadows of Gentrification and Displacement: Experiences of Marginalized Residents in Waterloo Region, Canada
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Abstract
What happens to marginalized communities that were already facing gentrification and displacement pressures when a major pandemic arrives? This chapter engages with, listens to and amplifies the experiences of very low-income and unsheltered residents as they deal with the pre-existing conditions of extreme housing challenges and the arrival of the first wave of COVID-19. This chapter is part of a wider collaboration between the researchers at University of Waterloo (UW) and the Social Development Centre Waterloo Region (SDC), a charitable non-profit, social planning, and community development organization that focuses on advancing social justice and documenting the lived experiences of poverty and homelessness. Throughout the late spring and summer of 2020, we interviewed residents living through both gentrification and the pandemic. In this chapter, we focus on the everyday lives, challenges, experiences, and opportunities of some of the most marginalized members of our community. The pandemic brought new challenges into a landscape that was already hostile to low-income people. Our chapter seeks to amplify their voices and experiences, which is essential for achieving equitable policy outcomes. At the same time, we juxtapose their experiences with some of the dominant narratives of how COVID-19 has impacted the region. Our case study is the Region of Waterloo, which is comprised of three contiguous mid-sized cities (Kitchener, Waterloo, and Cambridge) and four rural townships. It ranks among Canada’s fastest growing urban areas and has a total population of approximately 620,000. The region is situated 100km west of Toronto, Canada’s largest city.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it