Month: May 2026

ACORN Hamilton meets Friday to continue planning its campaign to improve the city’s Housing Emergency Fund. The fund is similar to the Housing Emergency Loan Program that our congregation helped launch in 1999 and which still exists. The city fund provides emergency money to low-income Hamilton tenant households to pay rent or utility arrears and … Read more

Judge’s ground-breaking ruling says discrimination against homeless people violates the Charter; Premier threatens to use “notwithstanding” clause to overrule it An Ontario court judge has rejected a Waterloo Region attempt to evict an encampment from a site where a transit hub is being constructed. And in doing so, Justice Michael Gilson made legal history last … Read more

Many organizations, including the federal housing agency, argue that housing became more expensive because demand exceeded supply. Yet a summary by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives shows that housing supply has actually grown faster than population for decades, even as prices soared. What drove up those prices was “banking practices that have directed excessive … Read more

CBC has done a great job summarizing just how out-of-reach home-ownership remains. There are fewer and fewer municipalities today where middle-income earners can afford to buy a home, one priced in the bottom fifth of housing prices. The article quotes a study that compared the ratio of starter home prices to incomes of young, dual-income … Read more

Sacajawea Non-Profit Housing has started construction on a 30-unit Indigenous housing project just up the street from our church. The site, at 95 Dundurn South, will provide flexible and affordable housing for Indigenous students at Mohawk or McMaster. And half the proceeds of our church auction, underway now, will support furnishing and equipping that building. … Read more