Affordable Housing

  City staff has recommended the city provide the Hamilton Alliance for Tiny Shelters with $100,000 for each of three years. However, the Emergency and Community Services Committee deferred a decision at its December 1 meeting, with direction to staff to help HATS finds a better site than one HATS proposed on Barton Street East … Read more

    This year’s Christmas Eve offering will go to Sacajawea Non-Profit Housing to pay for the facilitator and supplies for workshops for tenants on such things as canning moose meat (this is a technique from the Indigenous people of the north), hand drum making/ceremony, deer hide mittens and medicine talks. 

The city of Hamilton is considering rules that might require anyone wishing to demolish an existing apartment building to provide an equal number of affordable units in a new building. Toronto has such rules. But under Bill 23, the More Homes Built Faster Act, the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing has the right to … Read more

This comprehensive piece of legislation, which amends 10 pieces of legislation including the Planning Act, the Municipal Act, the Conservation Authorities Act and Ontario Heritage Act, went from introduction to law in just 35 days. This despite wide and reasonable opposition from municipalities and others who see it not only as unnecessarily intrusive but also … Read more

What is inclusionary Zoning?  Inclusionary zoning is a tool that allows municipalities to require residential developers to provide a portion of their units at affordable rent or prices. Many of those elected to our new council had hoped that city would be able to require 30 or even 40 per cent of new units built … Read more