Jennifer WallaceJennifer Wallace

Great Turnout at First Climate Café

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Thank you!  Thank you to those who attended our first Climate Café on Sunday. It was a great turnout! The film Eating Our Way to Extinction is also available online: https://eating2extinction.com/   Book Recommendation  On the same topic, a book recommendation from Irene Kaye: The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells, available at local libraries.

How Dr. Whitzman calculated that we’ll need 9.6 million affordable homes by 2030

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When Dr. Carolyn Whitzman spoke at our Housing Affordability event in June, she provided detailed calculations of housing need in Hamilton. Now, she has used the same Housing Assessment Resource Tool—which she has helped develop through the University of British Columbia—for all of Canada. Her report was done for the Federal Housing Advocate.  She calculates … Read more

Behind a new coalition’s goal of 50,000 new, deeply affordable housing units a year for 10 years

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The full recommendation has a second part, to Invest in the acquisition, construction, operation, and maintenance of new and existing public, non-profit, and cooperative-owned housing that meets the unique and varied requirements of people experiencing core housing need and homelessness. That second part recognizes that we need capital investments to build new units, funds to … Read more

YWCA’s Medora Uppal this Sunday, Nov. 19.

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Stay for a Q&A session and to sign letters to politicians. What drives Medora Uppal, CEO of the Hamilton YWCA, to keep pushing for the housing and other rights of women? And what gives her hope that affordable housing and anti-violence efforts will, as the YWCA’s slogan puts it, “change the lives of girls and … Read more