A new credit union for Toronto’s Jewish community is planning to help first-time homebuyers secure a mortgage
The first credit union approved by provincial regulators in over a decade is the first one to focus on the Jewish community—especially its growing need for accessible mortgages. Lighthouse Credit Union will provide many of the same services as a traditional bank, but its priority will be to help first-time buyers in Toronto’s competitive and […]
Cash-poor but land-rich synagogues and churches are now being urged to consider creating affordable housing
As shrinking membership and soaring costs doom houses of worship across Canada, a new idea is offering some a way to survive while also helping to solve a chronic shortage of affordable housing. The basic idea is to replace financially challenged churches and synagogues with new buildings combining worship space, market-price and affordable housing, as […]
Is wood the solution to housing affordability problems?
Kehilla’s event, called “Tall Timber: What’s the Word on Wood,” will bring together experts to discuss a new way of building with wood that is strong enough to replace steel and concrete in the construction of large buildings.
Affordable housing project breaks ground in Côte-St-Luc
A 68-unit apartment building for low- and moderate-income families and single people is being constructed in Côte-St-Luc, Que., in an effort to increase the amount of social housing in the Montreal suburb.
Vancouver Jewish Federation starts focusing on outlying areas
Increasing numbers of Jewish families have moved outside the city. As a result, the Federation has turned its attention to Jews living in outlying areas.
Living with your in-laws, can it be done?
Three months ago, at Zach’s parents’ suggestion, we gave up our apartment to move in with them for a year to save enough to enter the market.
Initiatives seek to lure Jews from ‘unaffordable’ Toronto
The unaffordability of housing in Toronto’s Jewish neighbourhoods has spurred some community leaders to lure young, growing families to areas outside the city where the cost of living is more reasonable
Thornhill residents reject revised Muslim housing plan
Thornhill Woods residents who have been fighting an Islamic organization’s plan to build a community housing complex for Muslims in the predominantly Jewish suburb say the latest revision to the proposal still isn’t good enough
