Affordable Housing

Our Board has publicly supported the call of protestors at City Hall for greater investments to create more affordable housing. A letter to the editor from the Board appeared in Thursday’s Spectator.  Click here to read it. A longer version, with more detailed federal and provincial proposals, was sent to every city councillor and all … Read more

On Monday, the Ontario NDP announced the housing policy on which it will campaign in 2022. The platform calls for the same goals as the Co-operative Housing Federation of Canada, Ontario Region, and the Ontario Non-Profit Housing Association, outlined above. The NDP’s costing is lower, however. building 69,000 new units of affordable housing over 10 … Read more

The November 5 Ontario budget “did not make any new commitments for housing specifically,” the Co-operative Housing Federation of Canada noted. Before the budget, the federation had urged major investments in affordable housing and repairs to existing community housing as central to responding to the housing crisis and Ontario’s economic recovery. No such investments were … Read more

Today is World Cities Day, a day to celebrate all the ways that cities contribute to the economic and social vitality of our lives. Today, our affordable housing team is encouraging congregants to write to our Members of Parliament to urge them to greatly increase the funding and the targets set in the federal National … Read more

Here is a model letter than you can adapt to write to your city councillor and the mayor or to all councillors. Adapt it and use your own words to make this letter your own. If possible, indicate why you care—you know someone struggling to pay rent, you worry about winter coming, your feeling that … Read more