Affordable Housing

On Tuesday January 28, 11 a.m., “Funding, Designing, Building and Delivering Non-Market Housing” will cover all of those parts of the process. Sign up at https://smartdensity.com/our-webinars/?utm_medium=email&_hsmi=342980123&utm_content=342980123&utm_source=hs_email Panelists include an architect, a development and policy consultant and representatives of a mass timber manufacturing firm and a non-profit development company. It sounds like a really useful hour. 

New leadership of our Affordable Housing Team The Affordable Housing Team this week chose Joan MacNeil, left, and Jennie Koops to be its co-chairs, succeeding Bill Johnston who is stepping down after nine years of leadership. Joan and Jennie, with Theresa Cardey from St. Paul’s, Dundas, led the organization of the recent Keys to Affordable … Read more

Rent increases moderated in Hamilton in 2024 compared to 2023. The annual Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation report on purpose-built rents (mainly in apartment buildings) showed the average rent for all types of apartments in the old city of Hamilton rose by just 0.6 per cent, the lowest increase since 2009. One-bedroom units rose the … Read more

About 2.4 million Canadian households are in core housing need, an increase of 660,000 households since the start of the federal National Housing Strategy in 2017. That’s one startling calculation from the Parliamentary Budget Officer. The strategy was created to reduce core need by 530,000 households by 1927-28. Instead, the PBO estimates, core need will … Read more

The city has created an array of programs to help tenants stay housed, amid trends toward rising evictions and slow growth in the supply of rental units. These efforts—which include support for legal advice and representation, a new bylaw governing evictions for renovations and heightened enforcement of property maintenance—were described at the city’s National Housing … Read more