affordable housing

Michael Kras
26 Apr 2024

Hamilton introduces new Vacant Unit Tax bylaw

Hamilton has officially introduced a new Vacant Unit Tax (VUT) bylaw in an effort to combat some impacts of the housing crisis. The new bylaw requires property owners to submit a declaration to the ...

Michael Kras
18 Jan 2024

Hamilton passes anti-renoviction bylaw

Hamilton city council has passed a bylaw that will combat bad faith renovictions for renters in the city. Renovictions are instances when landlords evict tenants by claiming to complete major renova...

Michael Kras
26 Jan 2022

Hamilton receives $26.7 million in federal funding to build affordable housing

The City of Hamilton just received $26.7 million from the federal government to support the construction of new affordable housing. A media release explains that the funding will support three key pro...

Craig Clark
18 Mar 2021

Hamilton receives federal funding for affordable housing projects

The City of Hamilton will be receiving over $10 million through the federal government’s rapid housing initiative, which hopes to support up to 3,000 new and permanent affordable housing units acro...

Michael Kras
17 Dec 2020

Hamilton is creating 45 housing units with $10.8 million from federal government

As part of a nationwide $1 billion initiative to fund rapid housing across Canada, the City of Hamilton will be using its share of the federal dollars to construct 45 rapid housing units in the city. ...

Michael Kras
03 Dec 2020

Metrolinx set to demolish 21 Hamilton properties starting today

Hamilton residents lining King Street East have been alerted that demolition on 21 vacant properties lining the strip is set to begin today, December 3rd. The neighbours of 9 of the 21 properties in q...

Michael Kras
30 Nov 2020

City removes tents from outside Hamilton City Hall amid Defund the Police protests

On Monday morning, the city made moves to enforce the removal of tents, structures, and other equipment from outside Hamilton City Hall amid the ongoing protests for the Defund the Police movement. Gr...

Michael Kras
29 Oct 2020

Hamilton awarded $10.8 million for affordable housing by federal government

Justin Trudeau’s federal government has just awarded Hamilton $10.8 million in support of building rapid housing in an effort to address some of the city’s affordable housing crisis. This funding ...

Michael Kras
22 Oct 2020

21 properties purchased for Hamilton LRT will be demolished next month

In spite of impassioned calls from locals to convert the properties into affordable housing, transit company Metrolinx is nonetheless moving ahead in their plans to demolish 21 empty buildings origina...

Michael Kras
12 Sep 2020

21 properties purchased for Hamilton LRT set to be demolished

Transit company Metrolinx has announced that they will be demolishing the 21 properties purchased along Hamilton’s former LRT route on King Street East, in spite of the transit project’s tenuous f...