We are part of a collaborative that initiated this project.

 

The Housing Collaborative has been meeting since June 2022. The work together began with a summit seeking community-built solutions for housing; thirty-eight people joined a five-hour open space community summit to connect and generate ideas that were actionable to address the housing crisis in Brantford and Brant County. The community-built solutions that were identified and championed included tiny homes/accessory housing. There has been a rich range of supporters that have come alongside knowing we are a community with skills and strengths, and when working together we can find community solutions for our housing crisis and address the need for home for everyone. Voices in the conversation include passionate citizens, non profit and indigenous housing organizations, accessibility experts, faith community, business leaders, municipalities, a generative journalism group and other organizations looking for housing solutions.

 

JC Homes is providing the site location and operations to this project.  JC Homes a housing provider with a specific focus on providing affordable housing to families. Since 1985, JC Homes has been a key provider of safe affordable housing in the City of Brantford. Today JC Homes has a total of 83 scattered properties in the City. For the last 6 months JC Homes has been part of a larger discussion focused on community based solutions for the current housing crisis. Several ideas for projects have emerged.

 

This project will be ready to build in 2024. People who will live in this space will be people who are homeless or precariously housed. Priority will be made for those people who are further marginalized , and harder to house.

 

By focusing on Accessory Dwellings (ADU’s) this project not only provides much needed housing that is cost effective and creates a positive environment for the neighbourhood.