Affordable Housing

The Ontario government is doing a survey as input to the 2026 provincial budget. There are eight questions and in four of them—1, 4, 5 and 8—you can tick a box for more affordable housing. Go to https://www.ontario.ca/form/survey-2026-budget-consultations It will only take a couple of minutes. Deadline to fill out a survey is January 30. 

The documentary Push made a big splash when it was released in 2019. It follows United Nations Special Rapporteur for Housing, Leilani Farha as she investigates what’s behind soaring housing costs. Now you can watch it, online, on Thursday January 22, 7 p.m., by registering here https://hamiltondiocese.com/reel-justice-film-festival/ It’s part of the Hamilton Catholic diocese’s Reel … Read more

Your donations this year to our Christmas Eve offering totaled $2,160. The money will help Sacajawea Non-Profit Housing acquire appliances for the main kitchen at the 204 Gage North project, which will offer a meal plan for the tenants of its 40 units of supportive housing. Supportive housing is an affordable home with health and … Read more

Each year, we donate the offering at our Christmas Eve service to a local charity. Sacajawea Non-Profit Housing will be this year’s recipient. Sacajawea will soon be operating four times the number of units it had in 2016 when our congregation first started working with them. Sacajawea began construction in September on a 40-unit supportive … Read more

The federal government has boasted of new investments in affordable housing. But the Parliamentary Budget Office, which provides independent analysis, calculates that those new investments will be more than offset by cuts made in the 2025 federal budget and the expiry of funding for existing housing programs. The net result is that total federal planned … Read more