Opinion: Part of honouring Black heritage is making space for it to grow. Now is the moment to invest in more Black-led community centres in Toronto and envision a path to building a Somali community centre promptly and collaboratively.
, outlining public investment gaps in social infrastructure for Black Torontonians.
Abdullahi Issa Ali is a long-time community organizer, having first arrived in Toronto in 1973. He was a founding member of the first ever Somali Canadian Association in 1976 and notes that the need for a community centre was immediately apparent, prompting organizing “efforts [that] did not begin in the ’80s, ’90s or even 2000s, but in the 1970s, and there were others before [that] as well.”
The SCCR is well positioned to address several social infrastructure gaps, but it cannot be procured without large public investment from programs like the Investing in Canada Infrastructure Program and Ontario Trillium Benefit that were imperative in establishing many of Toronto’s community centres.
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