Affordable Housing

With our Christmas Eve offering this year, we will help Sacajawea Non-Profit Housing to pay for the facilitators and supplies for workshops for tenants on such things as hand drum making/ceremony, deer hide mittens and medicine talks. Please give generously at the service. If you will not be attending, you have two options to give. Write … Read more

What will it take to make real progress on eliminating homelessness? Originally scheduled for November 29, Housing Affordability: From Promises to Reality, is now booked for January 10, 7 p.m. in our sanctuary.  Speakers are Katherine Kalinowski, chief operating officer, Good Shepherd Centres, Graham Cubitt, director of projects and development at Indwell, Brian Sibley, executive … Read more

The Numbers Between the 2011 and 2021 Census, Canada lost 553,000 housing units that rented for less than $750. Rent of $750 is affordable is you earn $30,000 or more.  In the Hamilton Census Metropolitan Area that includes Burlington and Grimsby, we lost almost 16,000 of those units. See https://chec-ccrl.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Updated-Analysis-on-Housing-Erosion-from-2021-Census-Steve-Pomeroy.pdf Hamilton’s goal is to build … Read more

As part of a letter writing workshop on November 30, Bill Johnston and Joan MacNeil of our Affordable Housing Team prepared a guide to writing letters, with a specific focus on responding to several recent provincial government initiatives that will mostly hamper efforts to get more affordable housing. You can find the guide on our … Read more