The area can certainly benefit from this project.
You may not know it but this is the latest project by
Indwell. They are creating and operating some of the best affordable housing in the city. They also developed and operate
1430 Main Street East (Rudy Hulst Commons), 1429 Main Street East (The John M. Perkins Centre), both featured on this board, and about a half dozen others in Hamilton and Southwestern Ontario.
I have checked out these developments first hand and I find them to the the most progressive, humane, supportive, aesthetically pleasing, sustainable, housing I have ever seen.
These are not flop houses, or a place for drug addled transients.
This is supportive housing of the highest quality, a place where tenants are carefully selected for their fit. This is important because each building is an actual community where residents can stay forever.
The buildings are carefully managed and the residents themselves are involved in that management, as well as in supporting one another on a day-to-day basis. Professional in-house support is available at least one day a week to help residents connect to other community and health services. It is a very cost-efficient model.
The buildings are notable for their sustainable capitalization model, funded by a combination of tax money as well as funds from large charities such as Hamilton Community Foundation, and private donors as well.
These projects are a model of how affordable and supportive housing can be done. I only wish there could be other groups like Indwell, or that they could become the Province's affordable housing builder architect and operator.
This high quality housing provider is worthy of a thread of its own.
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