Posts by The Hamilton Spectator

Indwell vows ‘real affordability’ at planned redevelopment of CityHousing Hamilton townhomes
The planned redevelopment of CityHousing Hamilton townhomes aims to provide truly affordable supportive housing in Hamilton, focusing on long-term affordability and community integration.

Overdose crisis: Messages of hope and despair at Gage Park
The page discusses the overdose crisis and its impact on the community around Gage Park, highlighting both hopeful and despairing perspectives.

Editorial: More political will needed to fight housing crisis
Cities, Hamilton included, are struggling mightily to repair existing housing stock and find ways for new stock to be built.

Innovative Hamilton affordable housing project gets nearly $2M in federal cash — and national attention
The Hughson Street Baptist Church is building a new home that will be topped with 45 supportive housing units managed by Indwell. It could be a model for faith communities across Canada, they say.

Jeff Mahoney: Two kids, taking a ‘stand’ for community, and giving it back to Indwell’s The Commons in Hamilton
If you’re supposed to make lemonade when life gives you lemons, as they say, what are you supposed to do when life (or mom) skips the lemons and goes right to giving you the lemonade, already made?
Why, you make a lemonade stand, of course. It’s summertime, after all. And so to move the saying forward: if life gives you a lemonade stand, make lemonade sales, at 50 cents a cup.
And lastly, if life gives you money from lemonade sales (more than you ever expected), what should you make then? A trip to the toy store? No, if you’re Brady and Jesse Dutra, what you make is a … difference.