Affordable Housing

Exciting news! Our November 15th event will feature one of Canada’s top affordable housing experts.  There may be no more quoted expert on Canada’s affordable housing crisis than Dr. Carolyn Whitzman. And she will be here, in our sanctuary, headlining a terrific event on the evening of Friday November 15, Keys to Affordable Living: A … Read more

A public event, an advocacy campaign and our 9th annual National Housing Day worship service are being planned by our congregation’s Affordable Housing Team, working with the Affordable Housing & Homelessness Sub-Committee of St. Paul’s United Church in Dundas. A sub-team is working on an event to showcase the most acute housing challenges, those facing … Read more

Learn how this Thursday, September 12, noon to 1 p.m. through a Canadian Urban Institute webinar. We need both: lots more affordable homes and to preserve and enhance the environment to create safe, resilient communities.  The CUI manages to pack a lot of ideas into a single hour. Tune in and be inspired. Register here … Read more

Demands are increasing for action to end encampments, end homelessness, and end the crisis of widespread unaffordable housing that is driving both. To date, the federal and Ontario governments have not stepped up with anything like the right scale of investment. Our Affordable Housing Team, working with St. Paul’s United, Dundas and others, will make … Read more

You are welcome to join us! Like many of our teams and committees, the Affordable Housing Team will do some work this summer to prepare for fall events. We may host housing expert Caroline Whitzman again, whose important book, Home Truths: Fixing Canada’s Housing Crisis, comes out in mid-October. We may partner with unions and … Read more