Affordable Housing

Learn how this Thursday, September 12, noon to 1 p.m. through a Canadian Urban Institute webinar. We need both: lots more affordable homes and to preserve and enhance the environment to create safe, resilient communities.  The CUI manages to pack a lot of ideas into a single hour. Tune in and be inspired. Register here … Read more

Demands are increasing for action to end encampments, end homelessness, and end the crisis of widespread unaffordable housing that is driving both. To date, the federal and Ontario governments have not stepped up with anything like the right scale of investment. Our Affordable Housing Team, working with St. Paul’s United, Dundas and others, will make … Read more

You are welcome to join us! Like many of our teams and committees, the Affordable Housing Team will do some work this summer to prepare for fall events. We may host housing expert Caroline Whitzman again, whose important book, Home Truths: Fixing Canada’s Housing Crisis, comes out in mid-October. We may partner with unions and … Read more

This is looks like a useful looking webinar: June 26, 1 p.m. Learn how you can mobilize your community to advocate for social housing, organized by Social Housing and Human Rights. Register here to get the link: https://mcmaster.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJErceytrzMpHNYZzz73zjdBLOHNilFc8YDu#/registration 

Lori-Anne Gagne of Hamilton provided Parliamentarians with a history lesson recently—the history of housing policy and key lessons learned. Gagne is CEO of Victoria Park Homes, headquartered in Hamilton, the largest private non-profit housing provider in Ontario, and she’s had 40 years’ experience in this field. You can read her evidence here, (searching for her … Read more