The Problem With Gentrification in Ottawa

Nolan Bastille: The opposite of sprawl is densification and building more in the urban center. But when that does happen, you end up tearing down old style, smaller, single detached Ottawa family working classrooms. He says we've made it very, very hard to build in fill housing. Bastille: By the time new buildings are getting built, the prices have gone up. This gets too much attention because people put too much attention on the conspicuous condo building," he says.