Affordable Housing

Each year at our Christmas Eve service, our offering is donated to a local charity. This year, donations will go to our housing partner Sacajawea Non-Profit Homes, which started work this fall on a 40-unit supportive housing project on Gage North and will soon begin a 30-unit project just up the street at 195 Dundurn … Read more

Congregant Jen Reid has been part of an Art and Climate Change project, the results of which will be on display at a reception this Sunday noon to 2 p.m. at the Dundas Valley School of Art. The show continues until January 9. The project tries to imagine a more wholistic approach to the land … Read more

A special review panel has outlined how federal housing policies are failing women, trans, two-spirit and gender-diverse people. Housing Minister Gregor Robertson now has 120 days to respond. Particularly interesting is the Neha (“our way” in Mohawk) report summarizing what the panel heard during its consultations.  Some participants criticized goals based on “adequate” housing as … Read more

Landlords in three of the city’s 15 wards will need an annual license and an annual fire inspection, the city’s Planning Committee decided Tuesday on a 9-2 vote. The decision needs approval of the 16-member city council. The permanent licensing program builds on a two-year pilot project in the same wards, 1, 8 and 14, … Read more

Housing expert Steve Pomeroy at McMaster has just released a report that quantifies what’s needed to provide affordable housing for everyone. We need a double double—not two creams and two sugars in our coffee, but to double the existing supply of non-profit and co-op housing and then double it again. That’s what’s needed to eliminate … Read more