Affordable housing

A downtown London office building will be converted to apartments in an alliance that will see a developer work with an affordable housing agency and the area's Anglican diocese.

Poverty affects Canadians from coast to coast to coast.

London city hall has purchased the former Fairmont elementary school, closed by the Thames Valley District school board in 2022, for $5.96 million. It is one of several closed schools that have been purchased and found new life in recent years. Reporter Jack Moulton takes a look at the process

A massive new industrial development may rise in south London, after the developer pledged support for affordable housing.

A downturn in London's home-building sector last year did have one bright spot – city hall's progress on affordable housing. A staff report detailing 2023 development figures will go to city politicians on Tuesday, and it underscores the work city hall has done on helping Londoners on the margins find

More than three years after a pilot program started, city housing staff are looking for $4.5 million to dust off a program that helped pay rent for homeless Londoners. Read More

To borrow a pre-digital aphorism, maps are drawn in pencil, not in ink. The borders of several Ontario municipalities have been drawn and redrawn, in a tug of war between local councils' efforts to increase housing density while protecting agricultural land, and a premier who favours sprawl. Read More

Regarding the article NDP push for 250,000 affordable homes on public land, (Oct. 21) Read More

Queen's Park needs to play a bigger role in building homes across Ontario because the private sector hasn't met affordable housing needs, provincial NDP Leader Marit Stiles said in London on Friday. Read More

Two dozen Londoners with years of living homeless will begin moving Thursday into a novel 25-unit affordable housing building that offers much more than nice rooms. Read More

York Developments' commitment, earlier this week, to give $500,000 to Indwell, instead of including affordable units in its proposed downtown highrises is welcome, and not surprising, according to stakeholders. Read More

Imagine buying a new two-bedroom home in London for $200,000. Read More