Affordable Housing

You can help Sacajawea Non-Profit Housing equip its newest Indigenous homes  You may recognize the building in this photo as the old Pearl Company on Steven Street, a former factory that became a delightful entertainment venue from 2006 until 2020 when it was sold. Now, our housing partner, Sacajawea Non-Profit Housing, is converting it into … Read more

Sacajawea Non-Profit Housing, our housing partner, is building again. And you can help support the project through our annual Christmas Eve collection. Sacajawea is turning the old Pearl Company on Steven Street into 17 units of affordable housing for Indigenous people. You can give at the Christmas Eve service or in advance. Details on the … Read more

A new study done for the Canadian Housing and Renewal Association shows building more non-profit housing units would boost Canada’s lagging economic productivity.  To grasp the connection between having enough affordable housing and economic productivity, let’s start with what productivity is. Productivity is a measure of efficiency. It measures how much output we get from … Read more

It demands Ottawa fund annual net increases of 50,000 deeply-affordable housing units every year for 10 years If Ottawa really wants to move the needle on affordable housing, it could adopt the goals of the new Social Housing and Human Rights campaign, launched Tuesday. To meet the government’s obligation to progressively realize the human right … Read more

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland announced some significant increases in funding for housing programs in the federal fall economic update Tuesday. That’s good and makes up for the lack of new measures in the federal budget last spring. But the big funding measures are in programs that don’t deliver many really affordable housing. And the numbers … Read more