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.

Renter Growth in Hamilton

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...

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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,...

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Primary Private Rental Stock In Hamilton

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...

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Rental Quality Concerns

Rental Quality Concerns

The lack of new builds or reinvestment into aging rental stock in Hamilton has led to more and more tenants living in substandard housing. The Canadian Census asks renters and homeowners if their...

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Not-for-profit Housing

Not-for-profit Housing

Housing is key to social welfare, and in fact Canada now recognizes housing as a human right in legislation, but “housing is famously the shaky of ’wobbly pillar’ of the welfare state in that it is...

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Out of Control Rental Housing Report

Out of Control Rental Housing Report

Housing affordability for tenants has reached crisis levels in Hamilton and other Ontario communities. With less than a week left in the provincial election campaign, all political parties need to...

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