Affordable Housing

  … you can read a succinct summary of the views of one of the two keynote speakers at our event, Dr. Carolyn Whitzman, here: https://mailchi.mp/chec-ccrl/november-2024-chec-perspective?e=6b5a761178 

Five members of the Affordable Housing Team spoke at last Sunday’s National Housing Day service.  Through different stories and emphases, two themes were central. First, we need to remove exceptions to rent control laws that allow huge rent increases and no-fault evictions that are making rents unaffordable, creating insecurity for tenants and resulting in massive … Read more

The city of Hamilton is marking this year’s National Housing Day with an event on Friday December 6, 10 a.m. to noon in the city council chambers. There will be updates on affordable housing programs, the city’s renoviction bylaw, and a panel on the tenant support program featuring ACORN, the legal clinic and the Housing Help … Read more

Amanda Dick, one of the local tenants who spoke at our Nov. 15th event, described the fears she and the other tenants, many of them seniors, are feeling since their landlord filed to evict them from 103 Emerald Street South. Now we can support them in their fight to save their homes. Join a protest … Read more

Last Friday’s Keys to Affordable Housing: A Hamilton-Burlington Tenant Forum, was a big success. Counting the online audience, 100 people heard Hamilton tenants talk about the challenges they face, including threats, usually from corporate landlords, to evict longtime tenants from relatively affordable units. Sharlene Henry, speaking in the photo, helped lead a rent strike that … Read more