The First Unitarian Church of Hamilton
A Liberal Spiritual Community Since 1889
This is looks like a useful looking webinar: June 26, 1 p.m. Learn how you can mobilize your community to advocate for social housing, organized by Social Housing and Human Rights. Register here to get the link: https://mcmaster.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJErceytrzMpHNYZzz73zjdBLOHNilFc8YDu#/registration
Lori-Anne Gagne of Hamilton provided Parliamentarians with a history lesson recently—the history of housing policy and key lessons learned. Gagne is CEO of Victoria Park Homes, headquartered in Hamilton, the largest private non-profit housing provider in Ontario, and she’s had 40 years’ experience in this field. You can read her evidence here, (searching for her … Read more
By sharing our homes, we can help ease the housing crisis in the city at the same time as we help with climate change. That was the key message at the June 5 home sharing event organized by Eco-Locke and held in the sanctuary of the First Unitarian Church of Hamilton. Graham Cubitt of Indwell … Read more
There are solutions! Read the Affordable Housing Team’s list of good ideas here.
Last year, the city created an affordable housing investment plan and a Housing Secretariat to implement it. A first step was setting up a process for pre-approving possible projects, so the city is ready when federal or provincial funding is available. Twenty-seven proposals were submitted to build 1,620 affordable units. The city has committed to … Read more