Affordable Housing

A report that goes to the city’s Emergency and Community Services Committee at 1:30 this afternoon (April 20) argues that Ontario cities do not have the legal jurisdiction to pass anti-renoviction bylaws. The city has been considering one used in New Westminster B.C. to intervene when landlords seek to evict them to do major renovations. … Read more

Here are some excerpts from presentations to the city’s Emergency and Community Services Committee meeting. You can watch the video at https://pub-hamilton.escribemeetings.com/Meeting.aspx?Id=2fccdddd-d21e-4e25-a7e0-c14b9e5f89af&Agenda=Merged&lang=English&Item=36&Tab=attachments Joanna Santucci, Executive Director, Hamilton Food Share. I’m coming to you because I’m sounding the alarm. Never have I done that in 33 years. We have done everything in our power possible. We’ve … Read more

Homelessness, Opioid Addiction and Mental Health  A motion almost certain to have passed yesterday at city council calls for the mayor to declare these three emergencies—homelessness, opioid addiction and mental health. The motion urges the provincial government to take eight actions to deal with these issues, including providing a long-term financial commitment to create more … Read more

Homelessness is rising, and temporary COVID funding homeless funding has ended, without any new money. Young adults are still priced out of the home ownership market. Rents are soaring. A million people were added to our population last year and more are coming. Yet there was no new money for affordable housing in the March … Read more

Housing Crisis Despite worsening crises of housing affordability and homelessness, with large numbers of immigrants who will need homes, there was nothing new for housing in the federal budget that came down March 28 and not much in the Ontario budget that was delivered March 23. These crises will be left to become even more … Read more