Julianna Beckett

In his successful campaign to lead the Liberal Party of Canada, Mark Carney committed to doubling the pace of overall housing construction across the country and also to doubling the number of non-profit community housing units, including co-op units. He put no timeline on the non-profit goal. This congregation’s Affordable Housing Team has been pushing … Read more

A year ago, Mark Carney was a member of the Task Force for Housing & Climate that endorsed a really excellent goal—to “cut the number of households spending more than 30 per cent of their income on shelter costs to zero by 2031.” The blueprint notes that the 2021 Census found more than 3 million … Read more

Three bishops, a United Church regional leader and Rev. Danie have signed a letter that calls for major provincial efforts to preserve existing affordable housing, to protect tenants, and to fund a huge increase in the number of non-profit and co-op housing units in Ontario. The letter, drafted by our affordable housing team, has been … Read more

A report by the Maytree Foundation shows that spending on affordable housing and homelessness is about where it was a decade ago. And current spending is only half of what’s needed to end chronic homelessness, which is a small part of the crisis of unaffordable and increasingly precarious housing. The chart at right shows that … Read more

Last Friday’s Keys to Affordable Housing: A Hamilton-Burlington Tenant Forum, was a big success. Counting the online audience, 100 people heard Hamilton tenants talk about the challenges they face, including threats, usually from corporate landlords, to evict longtime tenants from relatively affordable units. Sharlene Henry, speaking in the photo, helped lead a rent strike that … Read more