Affordable Housing

No Relief In Sight For Buyers Or Renters

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Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation has released its annual forecast and the news isn’t good for Hamilton. House prices are expected to keep rising rapidly in 2022 and a bit more slowly in the following two years. Rising interest rates will make it harder to borrow, and more expensive, as mortgage rate increases are expected … Read more

Keep Learning with the Homelessness Learning Hub

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The Homelessness Learning Hub has opportunities to learn more, including: A toolkit to combat the criminalization of homelessness https://homelessnesslearninghub.ca/library/resources/toolkit-to-combat-the-criminalization-of-homelessness/  The housing challenges facing newcomers to Canada. All medium to low-income Canadians face affordability and other housing challenges but newcomers face extra barriers. https://homelessnesslearninghub.ca/learning-materials/priority-population-newcomers/  And others: check out https://homelessnesslearninghub.ca/ 

What Does The “Right To Housing” Mean In Canada?

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Federal legislation commits Canada to recognize that all Canadians have the right to housing. But what’s that mean? You can watch this panel, from the University of Waterloo, to learn more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHmJxg51_bo&list=PLs6cfGBJEK6-zOq5MsJz9O5-9rwYu69tt&index=18  You can also check out the website of the National Right to Housing Network at https://housingrights.ca/ On its homepage, the Network also has … Read more

EH’s PARRT, Ensuring Secondary Units Get Approved

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Environment Hamilton’s Planning Application Review and Response Team (PARRT) meets this Thursday, April 21, at 6:30 p.m. The Zoom link is below. PARRT was created to ensure that the city’s Committee of Adjustment follows provincial law and city bylaws when it considers applications that will increase housing density in Hamilton. Provincial law requires that secondary … Read more

More Good News for Housing Co-operatives 

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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