Jennifer Wallace

One of the bright spots amid Hamilton’s housing crisis has been the creation of the Caroline Street Housing Co-operative. When residents of an older 21-unit apartment building learned it was for sale, they managed to negotiate to buy their own building to save its affordable rents and create a tenant-managed co-op. Learn more on Saturday … Read more

You don’t want to miss Keys to Affordable Housing: A Hamilton-Burlington Tenants’ Forum. The proportion of renters is rising, as are rents and evictions. We’ll hear of the challenges and proposed solutions from local tenants, from Toronto tenant organizer Sharlene Henry (born in Hamilton), and from housing policy expert Dr. Carolyn Whitzman (a McMaster grad), … Read more

Fourteen local artists have created a depiction of what life in a homeless encampment is like, an “immersive art experience” called We’re All Neighbours Here that will be presented in Powell Park (53 Birch Avenue) tonight (October 16), Friday and Saturday, 7-9 p.m. plus Saturday 3-5 p.m.  The artists have either experienced homelessness or have … Read more

A good way to grasp how much landlords have increased Hamilton rents recently is provided by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ “rental wage.” It’s the hourly wage you’d need to pay rent if you could find a 40-hour week, 52 weeks a year, and spending no more than 30 per cent of one’s income on housing—that … Read more