Home isn’t just four walls. It’s where you should feel safe. Where you can exhale. It’s where you belong.
Growing up, my mom was a property manager for geared-to-income and low-income housing right here in our city and later on worked for Brant Native Housing. I have grown up first-hand seeing and hearing the stress and the strength in our communities. I see how much people are juggling just to have a stable place to live.
I see how people are being pulled at both ends.
Young people in our riding can’t afford to move out. Seniors are downsizing not because they want to, but because the cost of staying is too high. Parents are working overtime just to keep up. And many, especially those navigating colonial legacies, racism, or disability, are still being pushed out of the housing conversation entirely.
And it makes me ask:
What are other countries doing? England has council housing… where are ours?
Why do we treat housing like a luxury, when it’s clearly a necessity?
As your MP I know housing is a human right.
Not a commodity for investors to flip.
Not a playground for speculators.
Not a source of endless profit.
We want real investment in non-market housing: co-ops, non-profits, Indigenous-led projects, and mixed-income models that are made for people not profit.