I see distateful self-righteous indignation but not in the OCAP photos.
Then you're not looking very hard; but I digress.
I will attempt to explain rather than poke fun at. You're right, I was being childish. The anonymity of the internet brings it out in me (as I'm sure you've noticed).
I'm bored with OCAP. They seem to truly find joy in pissing people off and are more into screaming than discussing. I know you haven't been here long, but these guys have a reputation going back a long ways and it's getting old. They used to be a lot worse, but they still leave a bad taste in the mouth of lots of people in this city.
Rallying against hosing prices going up? First off, they're not going anywhere but down right now, secondly, you may as well scream at the weather, and third there's tonnes of affordable housing, shelters and outreach programs in this area. I can't think of a section in the old city with more. It's just never good enough for this crowd. City's change, and as long as there's affordable housing in the city, there's no need to lament that a neighbourhood happens to be undergoing some positive economic growth. If done with some thought, this kind of situation can benefit the area as a whole, not just the rich. Cities change like this all the time, and we've only now just seen the thawing of the hottest equities/housing market in this country in a generation (maybe two), so that housing prices were going up shouldn't be shocking, particularly when we consider that this market is now in a correctional phase. Bottom line - cities change. In should not be fought, just managed. OCAP fights.
I am of the opinion that some good could come of projects like what's being attempted in Regent Park, but they hate it. I don't understand how it's not a disgrace to them that the government houses people in the squalor that's currently on the site. I believe that in such instances, a large factor in ghettoisation and the continuation of poverty is too much subsidised housing in one area, but anytime these sacred cows are touched OCAP comes screaming in and gets all "J'accuse!" on everyone they see not with them.
As previously stated, Cabbagetown has more than it's share, and rather than protesting there, why don't they take it to the NIMBYs who's neighbourhoods are too nice to have first generation immigrants and single mothers? Some more balance would help the impoverished more. Or hey, why not try and work with the powers that make these decisions rather than giving them the finger? It seems too many in these groups see that as selling out, rather than constructive bridge building.
Seemingly to OCAP, it is a zero sum game - what is good for the poor is bad for the rich, and vice versa. No exceptions.