Month: June 2025

The federal government has no money left for its main program for building non-profit housing. All the money for repayable contributions under the New Construction-Community Housing Sub-Stream of the Affordable Housing Fund has been spent. This is particularly bad news since the government announced in November that it had extended the fund to 2028-29 and … Read more

A trend of declining rents for vacant apartments in Hamilton has ended. The average rent for a one-bedroom apartment had fallen a bit, month by month, since July, but that reversed in April and May. Rents for two-bedroom units declined from about April 2024 but are back up in the past two months. Rents are … Read more

More than half of the residents of Vienna, a city of about 2 million, live in some form of subsidized housing, like the one in this photo. Investing in housing—at a pace of about 12,000 units built or refurbished every year—is a basic part of the municipality’s role there, according to an interesting CBC report. … Read more

We can sometimes be judgmental and blame people we see who are homeless. But homelessness always starts with a landlord’s decision to evict someone. Terri Singer’s story is a reminder of that reality. Though homeless for some months, they were lucky that supportive housing was available to get them housed again.

A 201-unit building to be constructed at 409 Brant Street at James will be built as rental units, with the rent for 25 per cent of them geared to the tenants’ incomes. The developer scrapped plans for a condo on the site because the condo market has stalled. Federal subsidies support the affordable units. Read … Read more