Affordable Housing

You are invited to fill out a survey about your experience. ACORN Hamilton is conducting a survey of tenants in Hamilton to learn about their experiences with rent increases, the city housing emergency fund and landlord applications for rent increases above the annual provincial guidelines. The survey data will help ACORN plan for its next … Read more

Maclean’s magazine has a really interesting article this week on what it’s like to be a renter today—and about a third of Canadian households (34.3 per cent in Hamilton) rent their homes. From cockroaches to high rents and a constant search for a stable affordable apartment, with all the stress involved, today’s renters are forced … Read more

Denise Browne almost faced eviction after police removed her husband for domestic violence from the unit they had rented and lived in for 13 years. When he was removed by police, he gave the landlord notice to end his responsibility for rent payments but didn’t intend to force his wife to leave. Unfortunately, only his … Read more

High housing costs are undermining economic growth in Canada, a new analysis by David Coletto, the founder of Abacus Data, says. As Canadians retire, he wrote, they typically reduce consumer spending, but in the past, that has been offset by spending by younger Canadians as they bought homes, renovated and furnished them and borrowed against … Read more

High housing costs are being driven by growing income inequality, a new study says. Prepared by a Canadian and three American professors, the study found that the cost of housing in the United States, owned or rented, rose as average per capita incomes rose since 1980. But income growth has been very concentrated among higher … Read more