One of the Most Dangerous Neighborhoods in Toronto Canada - Regent Park - Ranked by TripAdvisor 2018 

The thing I like about this video is that the places look generally clean and they use their open spaces for plantings and gardens. So the people may be disadvantaged but it shows that they have pride and they care. I grew up in a poorer area of a small prairie city in Canada and there were lots of gardens and people took care of the surroundings and worked to maintain their their homes. This shows a similar attitude though it’s more urban.

I was raised in these apartments in from the 1950's to 1970's. I still have some very good friends from there in my life today (all retired). Back in those days it was new, clean, and a lot of pride in their homes. By the time I left it had changed so much that I didn't feel safe there anymore.

for everyone confused about why this place looks nice, most of the buildings have been torn down. Regent park is in its last phase of gentrifcation

I grew up there in the 70s to the 90s and shit was a lot more grimey then...for real..this video was done as the gentrifacation of Regent was in progress..gotta admit most of this shit I wouldn't even recognize..wasn't there before..but I saw a few of my old spots and teared up a bit..no lie..thinking of old friends who no longer inhabit this world..I miss them all...

My sister-in-law raised her 2 kids in Regent Park. She lived right close to the City Police and the new building they put up with Programs. I visited her twice when she lived there. She lived in a Town house and they are all torn down now. She has passed on and her kids are well educated and well off. Diane's husband lived right across from them. They are worth a few million. It is all in how you are raised. Her son is living in Panema in a new condo and has a condo downtown Toronto. These kids were born and raised in Regent Park. Life is what you make it even when you are poor. There are many good people living in this project.

Not a safe place at night but there was alot of good community outreach programs when I lived there, no matter how broke I was I could always do my laundry for free and have a hot meal everyday of the week.

Rip smoke dawg

Hoods in Canada aren’t even considered hoods compared to the US. After visiting Detroit, I was a lot more grateful for the country I live in.

Regent Park is a whole lot better than it was in the 90's and early 2000's

This neighborhood looks so nice compared to the hoods in my city Rochester, NY... I'm guessing gentrification to the max

For the people who are putting down Regent Park. I was born and raised there. It was a community. It wasn't unsafe for those of us who lived there. If ever there was trouble, the people you deem as "bad people" or "junkies". Well those people would come out in a second to help their own. Whether an elderly person fell down. A young girl being bothered by an outsider or anything really. The standard thing I heard every day when I was being approached by an outsider was "you good?" And if I wasn't good, I would be in seconds. Say and think what you want but the truth is, I couldn't learn the things I was taught there, in school. I saw first hand what happens when you dabble in drugs. When you run your mouth and can't back it up. And how to treat human beings regardless of their struggles. We have compassion and empathy for the people you think are throw aways. I'll take my experiences there over yours elsewhere, any day.

I'm glad I'm out of this kind of situation. That shit was hopeless.

Regent park is currently being redeveloped. They are putting more through streets in to make it safer and building a combination of low and middle income housing so it’s not all poor people in one area.

Regent park has changed so much wow, just got to walk it today now looking up the videos online 😮😮

Great video all around. I like to see the streets of other cities and see how the daily life can be for other people all over the world. The camera towards the end was coming out super clear on my end. Was that the coolpix? Anyways, thanks a lot for this and take care.

My sister worked in regent park for years, right at the corner of parliament. She worked with the kids in the neighborhood. I sometimes went to the library across the street

It looks very clean compared to the hoods in LA.

As a longtime Torontonian, a few things about this video. Regent Park was Canada's first social housing project, built just after the Second World War. It was certainly one of the poorest neighbourhoods in Toronto, probably holding that title for decades (it has become noticeably more gentrified in the last five years, though some aspects of the social housing still remain). There were gangs, there was trouble, but that's not the whole story. I remember when it was still much more of a social housing project (2010-2012 is when I'm most familiar). Even then, there were reasonably prosperous businesses, grocery stores, etc. (It wasn't just pawn shops, Salvation Armys and liquor stores as you see in a lot of bad neighbourhoods.) There was a small public library I occasionally studied in, and even for someone raised pretty upper middle class, during the day I was never intimidated or scared being in the library or in the neighbourhood. (I can't attest to what being there at night was like.) It was also a popular place for recent immigrants to settle, so it was a hugely ethnically diverse neighbourhood. It really had a character about it. I'm not sure I'd ever want to raise kids there, but would I happily go there for lunch? Absolutely. It's not just a scary ghetto as some Torontonians believe. By the standards of truly bad neighbourhoods, I've also been to north St. Louis, the Downtown Lower Eastside in Vancouver, some bad Coptic Christian neighbourhoods in Cairo and blighted parts of East Jerusalem. Regent Park is really not that dangerous or that unsettling in comparison to any of those neighbourhoods.

Looks very safe to me

This was my home and we were always safe

Anyone go to Park School in the 1960's, maybe we knew eachother? I had friends in south Regent and area.

A lot cleaner I see… and a lot of gardening so someone cares about their community💯

i have a strong suspision that there is alot of good people live there among bad people..

Actually got married in Regent Park United Church 41 year's ago, looks like it's gone now,wife and l both born and raised there.🤫

Regent Park: Sooooo dangerous that it is literally across the street from one of the more affluent and trendy neighbourhoods, Cabbagetown. Just literally cross Gerrard Street East, less than 60 seconds, no gated community, a small two lane street, four lanes if including the parking and you're in Cabbagetown, home to doctors, lawyers, writers, artist etc. Does Regent Park have crime (drugs/gangs etc). Sure does, but so do most neighbourhoods, just some have the resources to keep that stuff more hid and out of the news. Home prices in Cabbagetown wouldn't be so pricey if Regent Park, literally across the street was that bad, (no physical barrier like a wall/fence or train tracks separating the two). Regent Park, one of Canada's oldest housing projects, has had a bad reputation for decades, while Cabbagetown has been a desirous place to live almost as long. Coexisting side by side. Trendy shops just north of Gerrard and all. I grew up closer to the Beaches but knew people who live in Regent Park. It is possible to stay out of trouble and live a quit life there just like I know plenty of people from the affluent Beaches from good homes who got hard into drugs and crime. Overplaying the negatives of Regent Park has been used as a means to push people out of prime restate to gentrify the area as it is literally minutes walk from downtown.

Regent Park doesn't look like this anymore. Most of the buildings have been torn down and it is now all condos with units average around $750K to a million dollars. The small townhouses and small homes can be $1.5 to $2 million or more.

this hood looks a million times nicer than my hood in a 3rd world country

Excellent video. Choice of music. Shows now and then. I can remember going there back in the late 70's. The ppl were nice but the. V building were a cockroach filled mess. Felt bad for the elderly and impoverished who had to live there. But yes some really great, kind ppl lived there. 😊

It was so bad back then that you COULDNT get delivery service lol

The area looks pretty clean and the houses are well maintained. You also have shops and a place to get food if your pay check doesn't stretch to the end of the month. I see bike rentals and bus routes, and a park. There are gardens and facilities for low income families. It looks like a normal neighborhood in the city its just that you have a few knuckle heads running around causing a few problems. Something that the police and the mayor should deal with. Maybe keep an extra police presence there. The people living there should get on the member of parliament who represents that area, also the mayor's office and chief of police. Put pressure on them for change. Again, that's if the area is as bad as you people are saying it is. Every area has crime no matter the income. Knuckle heads travel. But overall Toronto is safe compared to other cities around the world.

this is a NICE estate in london fam😂😭 go down to some hackney estate’s over here in london, but i don’t recommend u go at night...

This is really my favourite Channel! Thanks for your nice Videos, it is very enlightening, Waiting for your latest update. M5A Downtown Toronto (Regent Park / Harbourfront)

A neighborhood is only as bad as the company you keep. There's a lot of good people live here too. but nobody wants to talk about *that* for some reason tho

Thanks for the history lesson.

I grew up.on Birchmount and Eglinton in the 70s and 80s in Ontario housing and that place was way worse--People used to line up in front of this black limo in the middle of the day in FRONT of the building to buy crack. The cop shop was literally next door. Didn't help one bit.

It even has some gardens? It seems cosmetic mostly. Compared to dangerous places in the US it seems much less dangerous

Doesn't touch Jane and finch

I went to Park Public school, 1961 to 1969, Lived on Sumach St. Hung out Regent Park, Bright St, Sackville St. River St. Anyone here from then? I miss my friends from then....Please say hello....

RIP MURDA MARZ 💯✊🏾 s/o from cali

I’m from Chicago and this is straight projects here!!!

Looks good to me, i'd love to live here

in summer of 2016, when my ex gf got addicted to h, we decided to drive there at 3am-4am. there was a house where u had bunch of dudes on the front porch waiting to sell drugs & they even had 2 hookers probably 23-24y/o waving down male drivers in a flirtacious way to pick them up. we went away because we got too scared then few blocks away we saw another group of about 25 addicts all gathered & chatting. 1 of them was a white guy on wheelchair & he was the one we asked to hook us up. We laughed when we got in the car about this being movie-like but i told her this could be u one day. i lost contact with her & recently went back to the area where she lived (S.Etobicoke) & her friends told me she now lives in a crack house in the regent park area.

reading some of the people trying to downplay it in the comments by saying "detroit exists, therefore toronto isnt bad" is frustrating as hell. i live in a small town in eastern canada and th ere is a lot of fucking crime and a lot of ghetto areas that arent visibly bad, but are all horrible places to live due to the living conditions and crime problem. an area can be dangerous while not visibly looking run down. regent park is not a safe place, not even slightly the only reason parts of it look okay is because of gentrification

I lived there when I was a baby1979

that aint no hood if u can ride ur bike thru it as a white dude holding a camera

Where's the Dangerous Neighborhood?

This video doesn't show the old regent park, I did a ton of time living out there in the 90s and it wasn't safer than dundas and yonge, though if you were familiar with it, it felt safer. THe old buildings were built in a way where it was easy to get jacked, hahah.

Moved here two years ago. This guy road through 1 block of social housing, the only block left. Regent park is softer than butter - I'm a white dude that walks to work in a suit and havent been bothered. It's all brand new condos.

It should be noted that the neighbourhood is under renewal with new buildings and the re opening of streets that were closed off for the Brazilia-inspired original design plans (that are what made the neighbourhood dangerous. The video avoids the truth that the buildings being shown have a very short time to exist and that the residents are being moved to new units, that closely mirror modern condos... Regent Park also borders Cabbagetown, an afluent gentrified neighbourhood. Mixing the fortunate with the less fortunate in an (mixed-success) attempt at removing the stigma from poverty. NIMBY doesn't fly here.

Smaller now way more grimey in the day but don't go at night their in a turf war with other hoods right now and people are getting shot. R.I.P. Smoke Dawg. My youths all over GTA keep the guns down its almost everyday now. Toronto is still very safe.

Great video from 2 years ago (2018) I've had contracts from a company going into a lot of the buildings within Toronto Public Housing, since 2013 I've seen The Good the bad and the ugly..... Regent Park is a work in progress.... It's going to take a long time for things to improve until they demolish those old buildings! I work between two buildings between Parliament and Gerard and River Street. Sometimes, I had occasion with the residents that they think they own the building and they can be rude and nasty but they extremely problematic and most of the time they brought in BUMS and the Junkies into the buildings! Yikes!!!!

Can you do a at night version of this video please?

Search ed the sock in regent park

Have these projects been demolished now?

Bro make part 2 of this video

Go Toronto FC ⚽️

Just another day in the U.S lol. This ain't bad at all.

It’s insane how everyone thinks regent park is the only project housing unit in Canada

It still looks cleaner and better kept than American slums .

Watch what happens when Shower Posse comes back

where can i get the link to the instrumental playing at the beginning?

Thanks for your video...even though your title is confusing. This is dangerous? I live in NYC projects and would trade for this in a heartbeat! Lol! Plus, where is the ranking displayed here from TripAdvisor?

I think they are planning to demolish and rebuild many of these blocks as part of the Regent Park revitalization

I used to live in 295

Every neighborhood has crime , but its still a community , ive had friends who grew up in regent park. And they often defend it. The community centere trys really hard to reach out to the young and the elderly with well planned resources. You have to spend time there to really get it. You might sit in the centre of that project for days and see little ,if anything sketchy , but thats not always the case either

REgent park is the largest public housing complex in Canada since the 1940s. In the 70s, it was worse. It has improved a lot since then. I recall that even Cabbagtown was pretty low in the 1970s and now it has become gentrified.

Cant find the second song, does anyone know what its called

Go Bluejays ⚾️

One mans hell is another mans heaven! You think this is bad come to USA hoods?!

Moss Park?

Do that ride around at night to find out the answer to your question 😂

It's no Russell Hill Road. :-/

Yes it looks very very very dangerous! lol Word on the street is that the lady at 02:23 can successfully car-jack people without a gun! She's that tough! lmao

As somebody who lived in Rio de Janeiro, there's just one thing I can say about this Canadian "dangerous" places... Bwahaha! 😂

Second review!

New Regent sucks. The old brick buildings, especially on the north side were perfectly fine. What were they replaced with? Total crap. I pass by just about every day and have been taking pictures there on and off since the 90's. The new buildings are ugly and built like crap. Anyone local can walk south from Gerrard and Parliament, look at how the seams and various fixtures attached to the new buildings are already peeling off and falling apart. The 1950's and 60's buildings were in better shape when they got knocked down than the crap Daniels and whomever else from the developers who own this city got away with constructing during the rebuild.

Used to chilled here back in 2011

Steer clear of Moss Park, for real.

Is it just me or does reget park kind of look like o block

RIP Smokedawg

The second song?

Gentrification at it's best... Sad just sad.

Shit looks bad but everyone nice and friendly no shootings nothing my homie live out there

but i live in regent park, its safe trust me

Looks quite safe xD

Who remember big Bull or Maniac from the 90's. Thats when the park was poppin literally

Doesn’t look that bad honestly.. might be alot of crime, but loos pretty clean.. i grew up in Edmonton. Its not as bad as it used to be, but the entire east side, some northside, and some west end was pretty greasy. Real rundown. The crime is a bit better and they spruced up the shitty areas a bit, but that looks nicer than the shitty areas in Edmonton

RIP FRESHIE

Go Argonauts 🏈

Go Maple Leafs 🏒

This area was very bad since they torn down parts all them crazy guys locked up or dead or just done with the life

Eptome Films, the company in charge of several Degrassi, The Next Generation shows use Regent Park Ghetto hoods as their B-rolls.

anyone from regent here??

LOL REGENT PARK 2018 ONE OF THE MOST DANGEROUS LMAO

This looks like council estates in the UK

Is that annoying music really necessary???

rip to my bruddas

Go Raptors 🦖 🏀

This place is Beverly Hills compared to the Ghettos in the United States.

THIS IS FUCKING NICE COMPARED TO THE UNITED STATES!