Housing and Homelessness
Tenants engaged through public legal information sessions.
We work with community partners and collaboratives to support housing solutions in the community. We currently provide coordination support to the Women’s Housing Planning Collaborative and the Street Youth Planning Collaborative.
SPRC Submission to the Federal Housing Advocate Encampment Review
The Federal Housing Advocate has launched a review on homeless encampments as a violation of human rights in Canada. As part of the review, the Federal Housing Advocate is seeking input from people...
Hamilton-Centre tenants urgently need more protection: election candidate survey
Green and PC candidates do not respond to SPRC survey on rental housing The Social Planning and Research Council of Hamilton sent a survey by email to candidates in the Hamilton Centre by-election...
Rental Housing Market Amplifies Inequality for Young Renters
Hamilton Social Landscape, Issue #30 Young renters face more challenges to finding affordable housing, according to the SPRC report from November 2022. Households led by racialized and Indigenous...
Renter Growth in Hamilton
Hamilton renter households are growing in all parts of the city. Growth of renter households across Hamilton was 11.5% from 2016 to 2021, a 5 times higher growth rate than the 2.3% growth in owner...
Hamilton’s Rental Landscape: Understanding the rental housing crisis and solutions to end it
The current rental landscape is changing, and changing fast. Highlighting data on rental housing from a variety of sources, the Social Planning and Research Council of Hamilton is publishing a...
Rents and Affordability in Hamilton and Ontario
A recent report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives shows that a minimum-wage earner would have to work 54 hours a week to afford a one bedroom apartment in Hamilton. This troubling...
Rising Eviction Rates Threatening Tenants And Affordable Housing
Tenants are being squeezed by increasing rental prices as illustrated in the previous bulletins in this series (Rents and affordability in Hamilton and Ontario and Rents in Hamilton's...
Growth In Hamilton’s Renter Households
One reason rents are increasing at higher rates recently is that the number of renters in Hamilton has increased to 68,545 households in 2016. This figure is higher than any census year since 1991,...
Rental Housing in Hamilton’s Neighbourhoods
In Canada, a full-time minimum wage worker can afford a one-bedroom apartment in only 70 out of 795 neighborhoods across the country, 9% of neighbourhoods examined in the CCPA report,...
Primary Private Rental Stock In Hamilton
The 68,545 rental dwellings in Hamilton identified in the 2016 Census can be divided into the three main types of rental units: those in private primary rental buildings, those in private secondary...