Affordable Housing

Housing Affordability: From Promises to Reality January 10, 2023 @ 7 pm Sanctuary, The First Unitarian Church of Hamilton. Please Register Here The aim of this event is to learn what it will take to make real progress on eliminating homelessness and providing enough affordable housing for all. More than 51,000 Hamilton households pay too … Read more

With our Christmas Eve offering this year, we will help Sacajawea Non-Profit Housing to pay for the facilitators and supplies for workshops for tenants on such things as hand drum making/ceremony, deer hide mittens and medicine talks. Please give generously at the service. If you will not be attending, you have two options to give. Write … Read more

What will it take to make real progress on eliminating homelessness? Originally scheduled for November 29, Housing Affordability: From Promises to Reality, is now booked for January 10, 7 p.m. in our sanctuary.  Speakers are Katherine Kalinowski, chief operating officer, Good Shepherd Centres, Graham Cubitt, director of projects and development at Indwell, Brian Sibley, executive … Read more

The Numbers Between the 2011 and 2021 Census, Canada lost 553,000 housing units that rented for less than $750. Rent of $750 is affordable is you earn $30,000 or more.  In the Hamilton Census Metropolitan Area that includes Burlington and Grimsby, we lost almost 16,000 of those units. See https://chec-ccrl.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Updated-Analysis-on-Housing-Erosion-from-2021-Census-Steve-Pomeroy.pdf Hamilton’s goal is to build … Read more

As part of a letter writing workshop on November 30, Bill Johnston and Joan MacNeil of our Affordable Housing Team prepared a guide to writing letters, with a specific focus on responding to several recent provincial government initiatives that will mostly hamper efforts to get more affordable housing. You can find the guide on our … Read more