Housing Secretariat
Housing Needs Assessment
A healthy housing continuum should provide a broad range of housing options enabling households with different sizes, compositions, and incomes to access affordable and appropriate housing as needed. Housing need is linked to adequacy, availability, and affordability.
To realize a healthy housing continuum, precise information about existing housing stock, demographics, household formation, household size, income levels, population growth, and housing demand and supply is needed to create a data baseline. With this information, an assessment can be made to understand the extent to which the supply, built form, and tenure of housing meet current and future needs and where there may be existing or future gaps in the provision of a healthy housing continuum.
Hamilton Housing Continuum
- Homelessness Services: Social services for people who lack stable, safe, or adequate housing.
- Emergency Shelters: Short-term lodging for people experiencing homelessness.
- Transitional Housing: Temporary housing for people transitioning from shelters to permanent housing.
- Supportive Housing: Facilities with integrated services to help people experiencing or at risk of homelessness live independently.
- Community or Social Housing: Developed with public funding owned/operated by government, non-profits, or co-operatives.
- Below-Market Rental Housing: Private Rental or ownership units subsidized by government.
- Private Rental Housing: Units owned by individuals/firms charging market rents.
- Home Ownership: Housing purchase by individuals/households at market prices.
Download the City's Housing Needs Assessment completed in December 2023
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