Affordable Housing

Summary: By Tim O’Shea  I want to tell you about something that didn’t happen in Hamilton for almost a whole year, even though it was happening in other North American cities for months. There were no significant COVID outbreaks in Hamilton’s homeless shelters and congregate living facilities for the first 11 months of the pandemic.  … Read more

Summary: Despite some good news for affordable housing, this year’s federal budget, introduced by Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, is disappointing for those hoping for major investments to tackle the ongoing affordable housing crisis. Most significantly, the projected impacts of the budget on housing are small: 4,500 more new affordable houses built and about 30,000 more … Read more

Click here for more information about what’s happening in the world of housing for the week of March 5, 2021.

We encourage you to write letters to our MPs and MPPs to encourage significant investments in eviction prevention and housing construction in the upcoming budgets. A guide with model letters and addresses can be found here. Or use the arguments in our federal brief.

The Board has approved a brief to be submitted on behalf of the congregation to the federal budget consultations. You can read it by clicking here.