in Canada' in recent history." These evictions were criticized as being part of a broader pattern of racist “reno-victions” or “demo-victions”, as “90% of more than 500 tenants evicted in 2018 after rental properties were allowed to deteriorate were racial minorities”. Nonetheless, Heron Gate has been noted by scholars such as Emily Power, Bjarke Skærlund Risager, and Marina Gomá as an important site of working class, anti-racist activism by its residents. As Gomá notes, “The Herongate Tenant Coalition articulates a different reality to the narrative of Canadian benevolence, embodying class solidarity, denouncing structural racism, and recruiting allies to donate to their legal case against Timbercreek Management.” Following an extended grassroots activist campaign and a human rights challenge, Timbercreek agreed to provide CAD$2,000 in moving compensation, relocation assistance and negotiated discounts with Ottawa moving companies. See also List of Ottawa neighbourhoods References Neighbourhoods in Ottawa Black Canadian settlements