Affordable Housing

This is World Homelessness Week and the Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness is asking you to sign a letter urging federal and provincial governments to take five steps to end homelessness. You can sign a letter to Prime Minister Trudeau and Premier Ford at https://action.caeh.ca/costofliving?utm_campaign=world_homelessness_day22&utm_medium=email&utm_source=caeh  Our Affordable Housing Team would insist that the fifth of … Read more

With board support, the Affordable Housing Team submitted a brief to the federal government’s consultation on its 2023 budget on October 7. The brief can be viewed here. It urged nine actions, including: Increasing the grant portion of affordable housing projects to 40 per cent. The government is proposing to cut it to 10 per … Read more

There was a fair degree of agreement on how City Hall should tackle the issue of affordable housing when mayoral candidates Bob Bratina, Andrea Horwath and Keanin Loomis took part in a debate organized by Hamilton is Home last week. All three agreed we need inclusionary zoning along the LRT route. Only Bratina suggested a … Read more

Our housing partner, Sacajawea Non-Profit Housing, has one fundraiser a year, an annual penny sale. It’s a great chance to support a great organization and score some cool stuff too. They gather great items for you to bid on. It’s Thursday evening, October 20, doors open at 6 and the raffle starts at 7 p.m. … Read more

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