Month: December 2022

As part of a letter writing workshop on November 30, Bill Johnston and Joan MacNeil of our Affordable Housing Team prepared a guide to writing letters, with a specific focus on responding to several recent provincial government initiatives that will mostly hamper efforts to get more affordable housing. You can find the guide on our … Read more

  City staff has recommended the city provide the Hamilton Alliance for Tiny Shelters with $100,000 for each of three years. However, the Emergency and Community Services Committee deferred a decision at its December 1 meeting, with direction to staff to help HATS finds a better site than one HATS proposed on Barton Street East … Read more

    This year’s Christmas Eve offering will go to Sacajawea Non-Profit Housing to pay for the facilitator and supplies for workshops for tenants on such things as canning moose meat (this is a technique from the Indigenous people of the north), hand drum making/ceremony, deer hide mittens and medicine talks. 

The city of Hamilton is considering rules that might require anyone wishing to demolish an existing apartment building to provide an equal number of affordable units in a new building. Toronto has such rules. But under Bill 23, the More Homes Built Faster Act, the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing has the right to … Read more