But has it managed to avoid social cleansing?Paintbox Bistro is a typical modern restaurant: high ceilings, framed art and hand-built wooden tables, serving everything from snacks to wraps to flank steak by a chef who did time in trendy Toronto eateries. Each is a resident of Regent Park, but each also got here through a different route. "I was raised there, in Regent Park, with Mo-G and all the other Regent kids," he tells me. In London, the most famous recent example is the Heygate Estate, in Elephant and Castle, where the council housing was demolished and low-income tenants were “decanted” to sites on the outskirts of the capital.Similarly, in the US, legislation under the Clinton administration in the 1990s led to the destruction of public housing complexes that displaced tens of thousands. The Inglewood Neighborhood Pirus (NHP), also known as the Neighborhood Piru (NHP), are an active African-American street gang located on the West Side of Inglewood, California.Their neighborhood is centered around Rogers Park, located on Beach Ave, between Hyde Park Blvd and Ivy Blvd.The Neighborhood Pirus and the Avenue Piru Gang, are the only two gangs in Inglewood, to represent Piru. Regent Park by Natkeeran / Wikimedia Commons / GPL 3.0. The whole project was a gamble on two fronts. Instead, she primarily listened to Beyoncé, Gwen Stefani, and Sean Paul, whose music is a staple at Somali weddings. The area was notorious for crime.Nejat Khalid, 18, on the Regent Park building site where she once played as a child.Art in the lobby of the Paintbox condominium building in Regent Park, Toronto.A view of the Toronto city skyline by night, as seen from the Regent Park neighbourhood.Regent Park in 1968, when hopes for the low-cost housing project had turned sour. Point Blank Souljahs (younger generation of Regent Park Crew) Project Originals - a Blood-affiliated gang (according to user-sources) reported engaging in petty theft and drugs in and around the Alexandra Park, College Street, Euclid Avenue, Dundas Street West , and Spadina Avenue areas in Toronto. All moving expenses were covered by TCHC, but many residents were forced to move to unfamiliar, far-flung parts of the city. His preferred nickname for Toronto, originally coined by local rapper In recent years, violence in these communities has been linked to neighborhood rivalries. Today, Mustafa believes that the competition inherent to a booming Toronto rap scene has forced Regent Park's artists to focus on what makes them distinctive and special, taking their music and art to a new level. After we walk to the basement of the home, I ask Banks if he speaks Jamaican Patois like his song “Mixed With Jamaican” would suggest.