The City of Hamilton’s affordable housing agency, CityHousing Hamilton, is continuing to hold its vacancy rate below its past averages.
CHH CEO Adam Sweedland verbally told the board on Tuesday that the April 2026 vacancy rate sat at 2.22 per cent—above the agency’s target of 2.0 per cent. The organization first achieved this benchmark in March 2025, having successfully repaired hundreds of units during the preceding two years. At that time, the vacancy rate stood above 9.0 per cent.
However, Sweedland provided no details regarding current vacancy trends, and CHH did not make its April board meeting agenda package publicly available.
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Published: May 22, 2026
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Author: Joey Coleman
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City Housing is what I grew up in with my single mother and baby sister at the time. It was 245 Kenora, and we had a blast back in the day. I Felt like a normal teenager as I went to school with both rich and average income students.
City Housing gives a family the dignity they need to live in this otherwise expensive society, and it is a social need that I argue in favor for to my friends who disagree or don’t understand its value.
With all of that being said, City Housing needs to continue making new units available. There are still lots of vacant units out there not being used. New housing buildings have lots of lights off and unused looking apartments smattered about each new building.
In the words of a famous pastor’s wife, “Won’t someone think of the children?”
Thank you for reading.