The First Unitarian Church of Hamilton
A Liberal Spiritual Community Since 1889
Julianna BeckettSolutions to the housing crisis from across Canada: a film showing March 3 at the AGH Thinking Beyond the Market: Rethinking Canada’s Housing Crisis is a documentary about genuinely affordable housing that your Affordable Housing Team encourages you to come out and see when it’s shown in Hamilton on March 3. It takes a cross-Canada look … Read more
Plan a special family outing in recognition of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. FRI., SEPT. 26th and SAT., SEPT. 27th The Fourth Annual Truth and Reconciliation Gathering takes place over two days and includes keynote speakers, pow wow dancers, drumming, youth lacrosse games, and educational opportunities. Craft and food vendors, plus children’s activities, … Read more
In a brief to the federal budget consultations, Bill Johnston of our Affordable Housing Team urged major federal investments, starting this fall, to build 2 million housing units renting for $1,000 or less. You can read this and other recommendations in his brief here.
Our spring festival in June raised more than $15,000, half for the church and half—$7,867 to be exact—for our affordable housing partner Sacajawea Non-Profit Housing. That money will help support Sacajawea’s Indigenous student housing project just up the street at 95 Dundurn Street South. That project moved another step forward last week when the city’s … Read more
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