Affordable Housing

Our 10th annual National Housing Day Service Garden-variety tenants from all walks of life are having a “Me Too” moment. Come find out why when local leaders of ACORN Hamilton participate in our 10th annual National Housing Day service. ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) is a community-based organization that advocates for low- … Read more

This congregation’s National Housing Day Service is on November 23, with members of ACORN Hamilton, which among other things led efforts to create Hamilton’s groundbreaking anti-renoviction bylaw. The City of Hamilton’s and Halton Region have events on Friday November 21. Hamilton’s is at city hall, 1-3 plus an hour of mingling. Register here https://www.hamilton.ca/things-do/festivals-events/events-calendar/national-housing-day (only … Read more

Tax breaks for home buyers, reduced rights for tenants   The Ford government’s fall update last week delivered the expected HST exemption for first-time homebuyers that could save a home buyer up to $80,000 on a million-dollar home. This comes at the same time as the government is fast tracking approval of Bill 60 that will … Read more

Tuesday’s federal budget talks about “generational investments” and “supercharging housing construction.” But there just isn’t the right scale in its measures and investments to seriously tackle Canada’s housing affordability crisis. The budget increases investments in growing the supply of houses to $5.8 billion, up from $4 billion in 2023-4. Even if that was all poured … Read more

Bill 60, called the Fighting Delays, Build Faster Act, proposes to amend more than a dozen pieces of legislation, ostensibly to get more homes built. Schedule 12 of the act further weakens a number of tenant protections in the Residential Tenancies Act in ways that will make it easier to evict existing tenants, even those … Read more