Affordable Housing

How many?  – Lots. When? – Now! Social Housing and Human Rights https://www.moresocialhousing.ca/ has a campaign calling for the federal government to create of a minimum of 50,000 net new not-for-profit housing units a year, over and above any affordable units that are lost, every year for 10 years. The homes are to permanently rent for less … Read more

Come hear the woman who wrote the book on affordable housing.  And a woman living as a tenant organizer. Keys to Affordable Housing: A Hamilton-Burlington Tenants’ Forum features Dr. Carolyn Whitzman, whose just-published book, Home Truths: Fixing Canada’s Housing Crisis, is the first comprehensive look at the current affordability crisis and proven solutions that would work … Read more

One of the bright spots amid Hamilton’s housing crisis has been the creation of the Caroline Street Housing Co-operative. When residents of an older 21-unit apartment building learned it was for sale, they managed to negotiate to buy their own building to save its affordable rents and create a tenant-managed co-op. Learn more on Saturday … Read more

You don’t want to miss Keys to Affordable Housing: A Hamilton-Burlington Tenants’ Forum. The proportion of renters is rising, as are rents and evictions. We’ll hear of the challenges and proposed solutions from local tenants, from Toronto tenant organizer Sharlene Henry (born in Hamilton), and from housing policy expert Dr. Carolyn Whitzman (a McMaster grad), … Read more

Fourteen local artists have created a depiction of what life in a homeless encampment is like, an “immersive art experience” called We’re All Neighbours Here that will be presented in Powell Park (53 Birch Avenue) tonight (October 16), Friday and Saturday, 7-9 p.m. plus Saturday 3-5 p.m.  The artists have either experienced homelessness or have … Read more