Affordable Housing

Tuesday May 2, 2023 was the official opening of the latest Sacajawea-Indwell collaboration. A former tavern at 180 Ottawa Street N. has been converted into 12 affordable housing units upstairs, all occupied, to be managed by Sacajawea and the Hamilton Regional Indian Centre just up the street, plus a café on the main floor with … Read more

Denied the right to help the homeless in Toronto “Someone Lives Here” is a powerful, 75-minute documentary about Khaleel Seivwright. He quit his job to become a carpenter during the pandemic to build life-saving small shelters for unhoused people facing the Toronto winter outside. His actions attract international acclaim but also staunch opposition from the … Read more

The co-chair of our Affordable Housing Team will be speaking this Sunday at St. Paul’s United Church, Dundas. “Nowhere to Lay Their Heads” will reflect on responding morally to our housing and homelessness crisis. St. Paul’s Affordable Housing and Homelessness Subcommittee cordially invites anyone from our church to join them for worship at 10am . … Read more

Zoom Event, Tuesday June 6, 2023 at 7:00pm What can we learn from affordable housing in Europe to help with our housing affordability crisis us in Hamilton?  Dr. Carolyn Whitzman, an adjunct professor at the University of Ottawa, will join us on Zoom Tuesday June 6, 7 p.m., for a presentation on her research on … Read more

The Affordable Housing Team will be hosting the Hamilton Alliance for Tiny Shelters for an open house at our church on the afternoon of Saturday June 3. The tiny home in our parking lot will be open, renderings of what a HATS village will look like will be shown, there will be updates on HATS’ … Read more