- 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...
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- Michael Kras
- 01 Mar 2021
Hamilton expands COVID-19 vaccines to adults 85+ and shelter residents, workers
As Hamilton continues to inoculate the most vulnerable demographics with the COVID-19 vaccine, the city has announced it will begin opening vaccines to locals over the age of 85, and adding residents ...
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- 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. ...
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- Craig Clark
- 26 Nov 2020
Defund the Police Coalition continues camping outside Hamilton city hall
Rallies continue outside City Hall as activists from Defund the Police Hamilton Coalition are calling for the municipal government to take money from the police service and invest it into public housi...
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- Michael Kras
- 31 Aug 2020
This video series goes in depth on Hamilton’s homeless residents
With homelessness holding strong as a heartbreakingly pervasive social issue in the city, a Hamilton-based filmmaker has created an eye-opening and empathetic series of videos that feature a number of...
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- Craig Clark
- 30 Apr 2020
Homeless tent community removed from downtown Hamilton high school
Hamilton Police and city officials worked to remove a large homeless encampment at the former building of Sir John A. MacDonald Secondary School over the night on Monday. Residents of the camp were of...
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- Craig Clark
- 09 Apr 2020
FirstOntario Centre is being converted into a temporary homeless shelter
As Hamilton’s homeless shelters become overcrowded during the COVID-19 pandemic, the city has been working to make FirstOntario Centre into a temporary “surge” shelter for the city&#...
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- Michael Kras
- 24 Mar 2020
Hamilton is converting rec centres into COVID-19 shelters for the homeless
To help Hamilton’s homeless residents with self-isolation during the COVID-19 outbreak, the city has announced that it will temporarily convert local recreation centres into self-isolation shelters ...
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- Michael Kras
- 06 Mar 2020
Someone in Hamilton is knitting scarves for the homeless, leaving them on statues
If you’ve ever walked by Hamilton’s LiUNA Station on James North, you’ve probably been slightly startled a time or two by a life-sized bronze statue of Italian writer Leonardo Sciascia posed on ...
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