Affordable Housing

Canadian governments were roundly criticized this week for failing to meet their international human rights obligations related to housing and homelessness. In presentations Tuesday and Wednesday to the United Nations Human Rights Committee, the Canadian Human Rights Commission and a coalition of housing rights groups stated that our governments had failed to implement measures needed … Read more

Home prices in the Hamilton-Burlington area continue to decline from the record-high prices of the second quarter of 2022. The median price for a condo is down 14 per cent and the median for other homes is down 11 per cent. But as the chart at right shows, prices are still way up—by a third … Read more

Solutions 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

About 30,800 Ontarians who receive social assistance benefits are known to be homeless, a new report by the Maytree Foundation shows. That is up 72 per cent since 2019. In Hamilton, 1,597 social assistance beneficiaries were homeless in 2025, up 140 per cent since 2019. Assistance rates are very low:  Ontario Works (OW) is for … Read more

That’s the conclusion of SingleKey, an organization that provides screening and other services to landlords, although it also has tenants as clients. In a detailed examination of rental data from across Canada in the third quarter of 2025, SingleKey concluded: “Despite regional income differences, renters across Canada face similar affordability pressures. Rent consumes about one-third … Read more