Affordable Housing

If you put together the platforms of the main candidates for mayor, and added an anti-renoviction bylaw, you would start to have a basis for a city housing plan. Here are highlights and links to the full platforms of the main candidates, in alphabetical order:  Bob Bratina: Include a zone along the LRT corridor where … Read more

Support Sacajawea at its annual fundraising penny sale Put it on your calendar—the evening of October 20, Sacajawea’s annual penny sale returns after the COVID interruption. It’s a great chance to support a great organization and score some cool stuff too. Detail in future announcements. Here are some photos of the Grand Opening at the Oaks, … Read more

What do the leading candidates for mayor propose to do about housing affordability? October 5.  Various community housing providers, including Sacajawea, are hosting a conversation on housing affordability with mayoral candidates Bob Bratina, Andrea Horwath and Keanin Loomis. It’s in person at the Perkins Centre, 1429 Main East Oct. 5 at 6:30pm. Here’s a highlight … Read more

Our congregation is backing the efforts of the Hamilton Alliance for Tiny Shelters to create a community of tiny shelters somewhere in the city to house people experiencing homelessness and provide them with food, a community and access to support services. A model cabin was delivered to our church parking lot on September 22 and … Read more

It looks like a garden shed but it is really sign of hope. There is an 8 by 10-foot cabin in our parking lot, a demonstration model of the kind of tiny cabin that the Hamilton Alliance for Tiny Shelters plans to erect to shelter people experiencing homelessness, starting this winter.  This one was provided … Read more