Affordable Housing

In Hamilton, about 18 per cent of Black-led households were in core housing need in 2021. That means their housing is overcrowded, needs major repairs or costs more than 30 per cent of gross household income—and they couldn’t find suitable housing that they can afford in their community. About 13 per cent of all households … Read more

With Board approval, the Affordable Housing Team submitted a brief to the federal consultation on the 2024 budget last week. You can read the full letter here. The brief included some of the issues from the letters many in this congregation signed after our National Housing Day service in November. We urged Ottawa to  act with … Read more

Join Jeff Nevens of Indwell, Tom Cooper of the Hamilton Roundtable for Poverty Reduction and Michelle Baird, Director of Housing for the City, for a discussion of what’s happening in Hamilton around housing and homelessness and what solutions are available that won’t take five years. February 21 at 7 p.m. at Christ Church Cathedral on … Read more

Maclean’s magazine has an interview with Hamilton’s Ward 3 Councillor Nrinder Nann, explaining the city’s new bylaw to protect tenants and deter unnecessary evictions: https://macleans.ca/society/hamilton-renoviction-policy/ The article wrongly says rents for Hamilton one-bedroom apartments doubled between 2019 and 2023. They rose a lot but not that much. Rentals.ca reports show average one-bedroom rents in vacant … Read more

‘Homelessness is a Housing Problem’: An online discussion Tuesday February 13 Many things get blamed for homelessness. So, researchers Greg Colburn and Clayton Page Aldern looked at statistics to try to explain why homelessness rates vary so wildly across the United States. Data on mental illness, drug use, poverty, weather, generosity of public assistance, and … Read more