The Problem:
Housing crisis in Hamilton, ON
A viable Solution ...
The city is pushing ahead with a plan to build tiny houses for the homeless or nearly so, and to put those houses down some of its lower city laneways.  Hamilton city council's planning committee voted Tuesday to investigate building homes no larger than 425 square feet — about the size of three parking spaces — to ease the city's affordable housing crisis.  Such programs have worked in other cities, said Matthew Green, councillor for Ward 3 in the lower city. In Detroit and upstate New York, for example, tiny houses have proven a cost effective way to house people. They won't solve the problem, Green said. But this will "allow us to explore them as part
Detroit, Michigan USA
Cass Community Social Services plans to build 25 mini homes in Detroit to house low-income seniors,
students that have aged out of foster care and the homeless. (Nicolas Pham/Radio-Canada)