Access to Housing — Attraction in Hamilton

There needs to be more funding and the way this place runs doesn't make sense. When there are issues the higher ups don't bother responding to you, you wait for years to get in and houses sit empty for years and there are not enough 1 bedrooms. Instead of upgrading houses that are perfectly livable the way they are maybe save that money and build some more apartment buildings in a decent area? In my area alone the people completely destroy the properties... and there are no repercussions. They move in everyone in their family when they know that isn't allowed and they get away with it, even when housing is aware. Now since they changed their policy if you are waiting for a transfer because you have to downsize you don't have a choice where you move, you are put on the list for ALL apartments that fit what you need, if you don't take what they offer theyll make you pay market rent. Lower income single people are being forced to move downtown to bed bug infested buildings. The population has gone up consistently and I haven't seen a single building go up. The way this place is run is insane and to the people who actually live in a housing unit, take some damn pride in where you live and stop destroying your units, youre wasting money that could be better spent. Just because youre low income doesnt mean you have to...

I'm not impressed with access to housing. The reason why I'm not impressed is because I way still waiting for the apartment that I selected on their list back in 2016 and then they moved over to the new building and I was still waiting so I don't understand why didn't they contact the people that were still on the list before they moved and talked to them. Sit down at a table and talk but nobody did so and I recently checked with their line. Their list like what's time frame and the woman said that it's longer than 10 years approximately and I said well 10 years. That's that's really really. Really really rich because I think I've been waiting even longer than 10 years. I don't think that access to housing. I think they need to reformat the system again at least with the reformat of the system because they lost the one part of the system. Now. I think that they should actually redo the system again, but this time have apartments lined up into the computer system instead of everybody all over the page in the paperwork listing because at least that way that they can actually find the right people in the right areas of the system. Yeah I know phone number and name well. What happens if they lose that information because they were hacked not...

I've been on the wait list for 10 years now. They keep running me and my wife and my mother around in circles telling us to move out of Hamilton, which we cannot because of a custody order. I went in to meet with the supervisor and the lady that me and my mother had spoke to had told us that they are not the people to help us.!!! I read last month in the paper that there was 500 empty townhouses I'm still not able to comprehend as to why my family was not offered one of these on URGENT status. I've drove around taking pictures of all the empty units and all the surveys that are ran through access to housing and it's absolutely sad to see all those empty units sitting there. I've been to housing help center I've been to the MP's office I've done everything in my power to try and get help and these people refuse to help me...