Regent Park
Regent Park is a neighbourhood located in downtown Toronto. Formerly the centre of the Cabbagetown neigbourhood, it is bounded by Gerrard Street East to the north, River Street to the east, Shuter Street to the south, and Parliament Street to the west. It is an extremely culturally diverse neighbourhood, with more than half of its population being immigrants. Regent Park's residential dwellings are entirely social housing, and cover all of the 69 acres (280,000 square metres) which comprise the community. Regent Park is North America's oldest social housing project, having been built in the late 1940s. (The Toronto slum neighbourhood then known as Cabbagetown was raised in the process of creating Regent Park; the nickname Cabbagetown is now applied to the regentrified, upscale area north of the housing project.)