The Family Matters series appears Fridays until September, 2000. Click here to subscribe to The Globe and Mail. Click here to return to the Family Matters series home page. The professionals have long since displaced the working class and the immigrants. Teachers and lawyers and bankers live here, and there are artists and writers galore - but not of the starving variety.
Garrets here are too expensive.
Still, in a money-obsessed city, the Danforth stands apart. There is not a minivan in front of every home. The houses are long and narrow, and people live cheek by jowl with their neighbours, and on the corner a homeless person may be standing, hand outstretched. Not so long ago, the people on this one-block stretch chosen by The Globe and Mail for Family Matters were strangers to one another. Then they had children.