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Do you support an expanded role for Hamilton to provide more affordable housing? If so, what should Hamilton do?
Responses to the question: "Do you support an expanded role for Hamilton to provide more affordable housing? If so, what should Hamilton do?"
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6 Candidate Responses (top)
| Ward 03 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Brief Response | Full Response |
| Agostino, Ralph | Yes | Yes; Absolutely I support a stronger role for the city in providing affordable housing, the lack of availability effects many families and we also need to build more subsidized housing. |
| DiMillo, Mark | Yes | I support more affordable housing. The City earlier this year adopted the new Housing and Homelessness Action plan which includes more housing in mixed neighbourhoods that is affordable. If we start with trying to meet these targets in the Action plan and look to find creative ways with community partners in achieving more affordable housing stock, then I believe we are laying a good foundation for expanding our role as a City with affordable housing as one of its priorities. |
| Green, Matthew | Yes | With close to 5k people on the waiting list and countless others living in substandard, inadequate housing we have a social responsibility to provide dignified affordable housing. We have a comprehensive Homelessness and Housing Action Strategy policy plan that budgets $7 Mil a year over 10 years with various interventions along the homelessness continuum to prevent precarious living conditions. It is incumbent on Council to support and deliver on this policy. In Ward 3 we have the opportunity to join in public private partnerships to build medium density, mixed use, mixed income housing. By increasing the supply of adequate affordable housing we can begin to decrease the demand for illegal multi units by offering tenants more suitable and dignified living conditions. |
| Mejia, Victor | Yes | we should look at heritage buildings maybe converating old bring back to new possible looking at business that are abandend and maybe making something out. |
| Omazic, Drina | Yes | In addition to supporting the Housing and Homelessness action plan, I would welcome Hamilton to explore redevelopment opportunities, and would look at working on new financing strategies to encourage private development, exploring private-public partnerships, and looking at inclusionary zoning models to increase the number of units being created overall.
The province also recently announced funding that could be applied to support the building and renovation of affordable housing, as well as the provision of rental and homeownership assistance to low and moderate income households. |
| Simmons, Tim | Yes | Yes, this is a top priority. The Hamilton Housing and Homelessness Action plan needs to be facilitated by the city to create more places as well as improve the quality of existing affordable housing.
This is also why we need a city wide rapid transit system. People living in affordable housing don't own cars usually, so they need to live on a transit line. But if we don't have adequate transit in Waterdown, Dundas, Ancaster, etc. we are limited to the lower downtown wards, which already have large amounts of affordable housing. We need to spread out to the other areas of the city to create truly mixed neighbourhoods. |
Response Summary (top)
| Brief Response | Count | % of Total |
|---|---|---|
| Yes | 6 | 100.0% |
| No | 0 | 0.0% |
| Maybe | 0 | 0.0% |
9 Candidates Have Not Responded (top)
| Ward 03 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Anastasiou, Maria | ||
| Assadourian, Bob | ||
| Gibson, Sean | ||
| Hess, Jol | ||
| John, Eva | ||
| Kelly, Brian | ||
| Millette, Byron Wayne | ||
| Pinho, Carlos | ||
| Szajkowski, Bernie | ||
