Poverty, Income Inequality & Community Engagement

Formed in 2005, Roundtable members come from across Hamilton and include leaders from the business and non-profit sectors, from government, education and faith communities as well as individuals who experience poverty daily.

The McMaster Community Poverty Initiative (MCPI) was formed in 2007 by concerned faculty, staff, and students who were interested in expanding McMaster's role in addressing local conditions of poverty.

Investigates the association between perceptions of neighbourhood physical and social characteristics and three health outcomes (self-assessed health status, chronic conditions, and emotional distress).

The Food Access Guide lists places in Hamilton, Ontario where food can be obtained for free or at low cost

Hamilton Spectator

Source: Hamilton Spectator

Residents working together to improve the circumstances of the community members in the Gibson and Landsdale neighbourhoods.

When Rachel Braithwaite moved into her Barton Street East neighbourhood she was annoyed by the johns propositioning her and thought of the sex workers standing on street corners as a problem. But that has changed since she and others formed what they are calling a safety committee.

A rectangular sign in storefront windows in the Gibson-Landsdale neighbourhood is a new way to help break down barriers to accessing mental health services for local residents. The decal tells passersby that these businesses and services are a Mental Health Safe Space.

Part 8 Sep. 22, 2014
Jamesville community

Part 4 Sep. 17, 2014
Keith community

Keith Neighbourhood Hub has created an Action Plan to improve the quality of life of our residents, raise the profile of this neighbourhood and increase investment in our homes, businesses and services.

Not one but two sets of train tracks run through the Keith neighbourhood, iron symbols of its faded industrial glory. The CNR line is on the neighbourhood's southern border, near Barton Street.

The neighbourhood association for the North End Neighbourhood, in Hamilton, Ontario.

The city's social housing provider is proposing to sell its troubled Jamesville townhouse complex for redevelopment but keep an aging harbourfront tower. CityHousing Hamilton has all but emptied the 146-unit highrise on MacNab Street North as the cash-strapped agency studies how to wring needed building and repair funds out of increasingly valuable North End real estate.

Change is coming to Hamilton's North End, but will it lead to a high-income or a mixed-income neighbourhood? The city is supporting development. Studies have been done showing where new housing can be built. There are plans to improve transit and the street network.

The North End keeps adapting, evolving, tuning itself to new circumstances, with its unique mix of poverty, affluence, history, opportunity, waterfront and train tracks, gentrification and resistance. And now, it boasts, thanks to the Welcome Inn Community Centre and its New Horizons Thrift Store, the first eco-parking lot of its kind in Canada.

The SCA are proud to live in this unique, diverse, heritage neighbourhood. They are dedicated to ensure that Stinson is the safe, clean, attractive, model urban neighbourhood of Hamilton.

To enable all residents to fully participate in the community and engage community partners in building relationships in order to enrich the community.

The local planning team forges relationships and works to increase opportunities that enhance the quality of life for people living and working in the South Sherman neighbourhood.

The Sherman neighbourhood is full of ghosts and skeletons. And these phantoms are assets to the community, says resident and communications officer for the Sherman Hub Community Planning Team (CPT) Laurence Smink.

Part 9 Sep. 23, 2014
Davis Creek community

May 9, 2019

Part 5 Sep. 18, 2014
McQuesten community

Grassroots volunteerism has helped turn this community into a place of pride.

15 February 2018
The city plans to buy a long-closed Catholic school in Hamilton's east end and resell it as a hub for Indigenous services.

Hamilton's public school board is considering sharing land at Lake Avenue School with the city to provide a food bank, health centre and affordable housing for seniors in the Riverdale neighbourhood.

The sound of hammering echoes through the halls of the Dominic Agostino Riverdale Community Centre. The noise traces back to a small room in the centre where 20 or so immigrant women are hovered over a stack of two-by-fours, measuring out and sawing the wood.

Riverdale community, one of 11 areas in city's Neighbourhood Action Strategy, celebrates its ‘good people' and the journeys they've taken, and wants to make sure every voice is heard

Informing residents on upcoming events and new gatherings within our community and to link the Riverdale Community to current programs, services and resources available for them.

Rolston Neighbourhood has a planning team, working with the Neighbourhood Action Strategy.

The only neighbourhood on the mountain to have a Neighbourhood Action Plan is Rolston Neighbourhood in the West Mountain, in the area framed by Garth, Mohawk, West 5th and the Linc. Rolston has a high percentage of low-income families and recent immigrants.