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.
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...
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...
Hamilton’s Rental Landscape: Trends In Hamilton’s Rental Stock
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...
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...
Out of Control: Ontario’s acute rental housing crisis – Lessons from Hamilton and Quebec City
Out of Control examines differences between Hamilton and Quebec City’s rental markets. It finds that Quebec has both stronger tenant protection policies and greater supply of new rental housing....