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Sacajawea has started construction just up the street on a new affordable housing project

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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

Most Ontario households that pay too much for housing don’t get any assistance

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Ontario’s subsidized housing programs help less than a third of the Ontario households that pay unaffordable rents or live in adequate or overcrowded housing. And Ontario’s Financial Accountability Office (FAO) calculates that this will get even worse by 2027-28. The FAO defines a household as “in need of subsidized housing” if the household does not … Read more

Municipal taxpayers pay most of the costs of housing subsidies for those in need of help

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Affordable housing programs in Ontario are funded by all three levels of government, but municipalities—local taxpayers—pay most of it. A report by Ontario’s Financial Accountability Office shows that 20 years ago, in 2004-5, municipalities paid 57 per cent of the total and in 2024-5, that had risen to 62 per cent, while federal contributions had … Read more

Key takeaways from last Sunday’s well-attended showing of housing solution documentary

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About 70 people showed up last Sunday, including about two dozen from our congregation, to our showing of the housing documentary, Thinking Beyond the Market: A Film About Genuinely Affordable Housing. Dr. Brian Doucet, who made the film about affordable housing solutions and policies being applied now in different Canadian communities, joined a panel that … Read more