Affordable Housing

Sacajawea Non-Profit Housing would be delighted to see lots of Unitarians out this Monday at 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 for the groundbreaking ceremony for their newest and largest affordable housing project—at 204 Gage Avenue North, just north of Barton. Please wear an orange shirt in honour of National Day of Truth and Reconciliation the following … Read more

Hamilton has been shut out, so far, in the announcements made by Prime Minister Carney as he launched Build Canada Homes this week. The federal agency that will lead federal affordable housing efforts will start by building 4,000 housing units on six federally-owned sites, none in Hamilton. And Carney announced that the Canada Lands Company … Read more

In a brief to the federal budget consultations, Bill Johnston of our Affordable Housing Team urged major federal investments, starting this fall, to build 2 million housing units renting for $1,000 or less. You can read this and other recommendations in his brief here.

Our spring festival in June raised more than $15,000, half for the church and half—$7,867 to be exact—for our affordable housing partner Sacajawea Non-Profit Housing. That money will help support Sacajawea’s Indigenous student housing project just up the street at 95 Dundurn Street South. That project moved another step forward last week when the city’s … Read more

Allowing for-profit developers to dominate the housing market. We need lots of new housing, rental and owned, but for-profit developers won’t (or can’t) build durable, comfortable and affordable housing for the bottom third or even the bottom half of the population. Even if they could do it and make the same rate of profit that … Read more