Affordable Housing

The challenge of housing affordability is related to, though larger than, the challenge of poverty. Housing is never affordable for those with low incomes. And as this year’s report by Canadians for Public Justice shows, we are making only slow progress, if any, on poverty, and food insecurity is getting worse. The report outlines our … Read more

If you think you aren’t affected by high housing prices, read on! Here are 10 important impacts of high housing costs. 1. If you own your home, and bought it before October 2021, lucky you. It’s worth more than you paid for it. Condo and single family home values have doubled in a decade, tripled … Read more

If you or people you care about … Have a mortgage about to be renewed Worry about being evicted so their landlord can raise the rent Would like to buy a home but are sure that will never happen Are living in a tent in a city park … you can soon have a better … Read more

Four years ago, federal funding got this 50-unit Hamilton affordable housing project built.  Today, lack of federal funding makes such projects impossible. The YWCA’s beautiful Ottawa Street building provides affordable, accessible housing for 50 women. A $10 million federal commitment in 2019—almost half the total cost—made it a reality. Today, the same federal fund would … Read more

Hamilton’s housing affordability crisis is the result of “a slow rolling process of abandonment” by senior levels of government, Hamilton Community Foundation CEO Terry Cooke said last week. A special housing-focused edition of the foundation’s regular Vital Signs report showed a couple of the results of the lack of federal and provincial investment: “Existing affordable … Read more