Affordable Housing

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

Investors buying up single-family and condominium homes are part of what is making it harder than ever for most Canadians to buy a home. A new report by the Missing Middle Institute and the Canadian Real Estate Association calculates that between the 2011 and 2021 Censuses, about 400,000 newly-built ground-oriented homes (single family or townhouses) … Read more

It is investor landlords who are most likely to apply for above-guideline rent increases and to evict vulnerable tenants, including racialized tenants. Researcher Martine August, at the University of Waterloo, in a presentation this week on research in progress, noted that 47 per cent of landlord requests for above-guideline rent increases in Ontario came from … Read more