Affordable Housing

Learn more on Friday November 15th We sometimes talk about Canada as a nation of homeowners. But more than one in three households is renting, with renting common among all age groups. And renters carry the greatest burden of the crisis of affordability. That’s why our Friday November 15th housing event, Keys to Affordable Housing, … Read more

Ontario’s Big City Mayors, led by Burlington Mayor Marianne Weed, have created a good video that explains the need for much more federal and provincial government help municipalities to tackle homelessness. https://solvethecrisis.ca/ The senior levels of government do need to do much more. However, the mayors’ call for action lacks a specific request and focuses … Read more

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