CASEY-HOUSE - INTERPRETING THE LOCATION OF A TORONTO AIDS HOSPICE

This paper focuses on an overtly geographical issue; the introduction of a housing facility for people living with AIDS (PLWAs) into the urb an landscape. Specifically; we critically analyze the location of Case y House, an AIDS hospice in Toronto and presently the only facility of its kind in Canada. Three questions are addressed: (i) how did Casey House come to exist?; (ii) why is Casey House located at the corner of Huntly Street and Isabella Street?; and (iii) will Casey House be rep roduced? In our response to the first two questions, we draw selective ly upon three perspectives (accessibility, structuralist and humanisti c) that have been appealed to in analyses of (controversial) :health c are facility location processes. In the concluding discussion, three r elevant spheres of reproduction are considered:locational, institution al and social. In consideration of the obvious constraints on reproduc tion; we conclude that the creation and location of Casey House may we ll be a unique geographical event in Canada.