Affordable Housing

If you missed our October 24th event, you can watch the recording or read a transcript of the event at https://uuhamilton.ca/affordable-housing/ Scroll down a bit to see them. The transcript includes footnotes to make sure you can understand all of the references made by Jacob Gorenkoff, of the Canada Housing and Renewal Association, as he … Read more

Sunday, November 19 is our National Housing Service.    The Affordable Housing Team is delighted that Medora Uppal, CEO of the Hamilton YWCA, is our speaker for our National Housing Day service on Sunday November 19 at 10:30 am. Medora has 25 years of experience working on issues of housing, homelessness and violence against women, … Read more

We don’t often see the kinds of housing some of our fellow Hamiltonians have to put up with. Here’s a link to an article and a video taken on a basement Hamilton apartment that’s circulating on social media. https://www.blogto.com/real-estate-toronto/2023/10/someone-ontario-renting-sketchy-room-basement/ 

Speaker says the federal government’s response falls far short of the size of the housing crisis. Our Affordable Housing Team’s latest event, Housing Affordability: What Ottawa Must Do and Why, featured a clear call for bold action from the federal government. We need an all-out, Team Canada housing program large enough to actually deal with … Read more

Ottawa needs to do a great deal more to tackle the crisis of housing affordability, Bill Johnston, co-chair of our Affordable Housing Team, argued in an opinion piece that ran in the Spectator on Tuesday. You can read it below.  Opinion Article in the Hamilton Spectator Tuesday October 24, 2023 Federal housing funds not sufficient … Read more