Affordable Housing

“The moral case to urgently build out Canada’s anemic stock of social housing has never been stronger. … A modest start would be doubling Canada’s stock of social housing.”  The quote above is from a new report from Scotiabank, Canada’s third largest bank. If the federal government won’t listen to the Canadian Housing and Renewal … Read more

Tell them TODAY!   To BUDGET MORE for affordable and supportive housing! You can, a) send a brief to both levels of government as part of their pre-budget consultations, or, more quickly but likely less effectively, b) use existing surveys to make a couple of key arguments. You will need to click the “Other” option often … Read more

Things got much worse for Hamilton tenants in the past year, the latest statistics from Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation for apartment rentals show. The average rent for vacant units in the old city of Hamilton was $1,498 a month in October, up a staggering 14 per cent in a year. You’d need an income … Read more

In a dramatic decision, an Ontario court has refused to allow the Region of Waterloo to clear out a homeless encampment on regional land in Kitchener. The judge ruled that a bylaw prohibiting tenting on public land violated the Charter right to “life, liberty and security of the person” because the region did not have … Read more

The Social Justice Team encourages you to use the Ontario government’s pre-budget survey to push for priority for affordable housing, climate, and poverty measures. Respond to the short survey by February 10 at https://www.ontario.ca/form/survey-2023-budget-consultations.  ➖ Click on “Other” to propose climate action investments in solar, wind and geothermal energy and energy retrofits, significant increases to … Read more