Affordable Housing

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.

CLICK HERE to view our congregation’s presentation to Hamilton Council on 2021 housing investments.

CLICK HERE to read excerpts related to housing from A Just Recovery for Hamilton, recently published by a coalition of Hamilton agencies including: The YWCA Hamilton, Social Planning & Research Council of Hamilton, Environment Hamilton, Hamilton Roundtable for Poverty Reduction, The Disability Justice Network of Ontario, SACHA, Hamilton ACORN, Hamilton Centre for Civic Inclusion, Hamilton … Read more

Our Board has publicly supported the call of protestors at City Hall for greater investments to create more affordable housing. A letter to the editor from the Board appeared in Thursday’s Spectator.  Click here to read it. A longer version, with more detailed federal and provincial proposals, was sent to every city councillor and all … Read more

On Monday, the Ontario NDP announced the housing policy on which it will campaign in 2022. The platform calls for the same goals as the Co-operative Housing Federation of Canada, Ontario Region, and the Ontario Non-Profit Housing Association, outlined above. The NDP’s costing is lower, however. building 69,000 new units of affordable housing over 10 … Read more