{"id":459,"date":"2024-09-16T01:15:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T01:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.105.28.161\/cms\/?post_type=news&#038;p=459"},"modified":"2025-03-24T17:44:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T17:44:34","slug":"torontos-lawrence-heights-is-moving-on-up-and-residents-want-their-say","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/nych.ca\/cms\/news\/torontos-lawrence-heights-is-moving-on-up-and-residents-want-their-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto&#8217;s Lawrence Heights is moving on up and residents want their say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"subhead\">Toronto Community Housing rebuilding 1,208 homes in the community.<br \/>\nBy D Kurek <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toronto.com\/news\/torontos-lawrence-heights-is-moving-on-up-and-residents-want-their-say\/article_bf6f6177-1c89-5f88-8416-34cac7433433.html?\">toronto.com<\/a> | September 16, 2019<\/p>\n<p>Lawrence Heights-Neptune area resident Kaydeen Bankasingh walks to work and watches the neighbourhood she loves change along the way.<\/p>\n<p>Townhouses that had been there are disappearing, walking paths are inaccessible, and new buildings are rising up.<\/p>\n<p>Change is necessary, she admits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho wouldn\u2019t want a brand-new townhouse or apartment, that\u2019s clean and pest free and basements don\u2019t flood?\u201d the mother of two, who lives in a Toronto Community Housing low-rise, said.<\/p>\n<p>But that change is also emotional.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dominik Kurek speaks to NYCH staff about the Creating Change Together initiative funded by United Way of Greater Toronto. Through the initiative, NYCH is facilitating residents to come together and voice their opinions and to connect them with local agencies, developers, politicians, governments and other community leaders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":460,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categories":[26],"class_list":["post-459","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nych.ca\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nych.ca\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nych.ca\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nych.ca\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nych.ca\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nych.ca\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}