Affordable Housing

It demands Ottawa fund annual net increases of 50,000 deeply-affordable housing units every year for 10 years If Ottawa really wants to move the needle on affordable housing, it could adopt the goals of the new Social Housing and Human Rights campaign, launched Tuesday. To meet the government’s obligation to progressively realize the human right … Read more

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland announced some significant increases in funding for housing programs in the federal fall economic update Tuesday. That’s good and makes up for the lack of new measures in the federal budget last spring. But the big funding measures are in programs that don’t deliver many really affordable housing. And the numbers … Read more

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

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