Affordable Housing

Our congregation includes about two dozen residents of Burlington and that city is about to approve a housing strategy to try to achieve a vision of Burlington as “a city where all current and future residents have access to the housing options that meet their needs at all stages of life, and that are attainable … Read more

In July, Sacajawea will welcome new tenants into two buildings that it will co-manage, including one at Indwell’s new project, The Oaks, shown in the drawing below. Sacajawea’s staff and board named the building Ain-dah-ing, which means “home within our hearts” in Ojibwe. Along with 180 Ottawa Street North, which will also open this summer, … Read more

Six steps to a housing affordability crisis The Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation produced this brief visual history of our housing crisis: Read the details at https://www.equalityrights.org/cera-blog/fifty-years-making-ontarios-housing-crisis-timeline?mc_cid=7c17738ddc&mc_eid=c4e43bbb8f        One result: 60 per cent of renters skimp on groceries to pay the rent The Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario recently commissioned a survey … Read more

Here are two quick guides to the housing issues in this provincial election: The Ontario Non-Profit Housing Association has five handy charts that show the positions of the four major parties under five categories: Build Reinvest Implement Commit  Pledge. Check it out at https://qc.onpha.on.ca/2022/05/what-the-major-ontario-party-platforms-say-about-affordable-housing/    Generation Squeeze goes beyond listing the campaign promises and actually … Read more

Highlights of the Housing Policies of the Provincial Parties Context: A total of 81,325 new homes were built and completed in Ontario in 2021, the highest level since 2004. Ontario’s best decade ever saw 846,089 units completed in the 10 years ending in 1978. Ontario has rent control but it only limits rent increases for … Read more