Affordable Housing

At our March 15, 2022 webinar, The Case for Co-ops, presenters noted that Ontario’s funding formula for housing co-operatives had a peculiar problem that threatened existing co-ops. The Co-operative Housing Federation of Canada has announced that changes made at the end of March should fix that. Doug Sider, with the Golden Horseshoe Co-operative Housing Federation, … Read more

Last week’s federal budget trumpeted $10 billion in new spending on housing, among the largest amounts of new spending in the budget. That housing was a major focus of the budget is welcome—and a reflection of that the broad impacts from unaffordable housing can’t be ignored.  Organizations dedicated to housing affordability welcome some of the … Read more

    Stay Up-To-Date: You can receive the latest newsletter of the Hamilton Social Medicine Response Team (HAMSMaRT) and Keeping Six, which provide health, harm reduction and other services to people experiencing homelessness, by requesting to joining their email communication at info@hamsmart.ca   This month’s newsletter includes news of the death of housing advocate Ezra/Vanessa … Read more

Environment Hamilton has a new, smart initiative to help increase the supply of potentially-affordable housing units. EH was one of a number of groups that opposed allowing Hamilton to expand beyond its present urban boundary. Now it is working to ensure we increase the density of housing within that boundary to keep up with population … Read more

An estimated 130 people came out to the open house for the Hamilton Alliance for Tiny Shelters (HATS) on April 1, 2022 at the Anglican cathedral on James North. A model cabin was open, with a bed, mini-fridge and microwave to illustrate what an 8×10 cabin can hold. HATS proposes starting with 10 of these … Read more