Affordable Housing

Medora Uppal, CEO of the Hamilton YWCA, delivered a moving and powerful sermon last Sunday, Nov 19th, about how we achieve change. For our annual National Housing Day service, she drew on her 25 years with Good Shepherd and the YWCA to suggest, among other things, how critical it is to help people who champion … Read more

A big thank you to everyone who signed letters to our politicians last Sunday, urging greater investments and other needed policies consistent with the huge size of the housing affordability crisis. Forty-five of you signed letters and 410 of them will soon be in the mail to our MPs, MPPs and mayor.  Oops. Help us … Read more

When Dr. Carolyn Whitzman spoke at our Housing Affordability event in June, she provided detailed calculations of housing need in Hamilton. Now, she has used the same Housing Assessment Resource Tool—which she has helped develop through the University of British Columbia—for all of Canada. Her report was done for the Federal Housing Advocate.  She calculates … Read more

The full recommendation has a second part, to Invest in the acquisition, construction, operation, and maintenance of new and existing public, non-profit, and cooperative-owned housing that meets the unique and varied requirements of people experiencing core housing need and homelessness. That second part recognizes that we need capital investments to build new units, funds to … Read more

Stay for a Q&A session and to sign letters to politicians. What drives Medora Uppal, CEO of the Hamilton YWCA, to keep pushing for the housing and other rights of women? And what gives her hope that affordable housing and anti-violence efforts will, as the YWCA’s slogan puts it, “change the lives of girls and … Read more