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Community Lens #166 – Home Energy Poverty

Feb 25, 2020 | Community Lens

This Community Lens looks at Halton households that spend more than twice the Canadian average on home energy needs, using 2016 Census data. Download...

Community Lens #165 – Rental Housing – 2019

Jan 29, 2020 | Community Lens

This Community Lens looks at rental housing data for Halton in 2019. Halton’s vacancy rate for private apartments stands at 1.9%, below the 3% vacancy rate generally considered the minimum for a healthy rental market. Halton also has the highest average monthly rent...

Community Lens #164 – Children Missing Out on Canada Learning Bond

Dec 17, 2019 | Community Lens

This Community Lens looks at the update of the Canada Learning Bond (CLB) in Halton. Download...

Community Lens #163 – Cost of Healthy Eating

Nov 25, 2019 | Community Lens

This Community Lens looks at healthy food affordability in Halton. Download...

Possibilities Café Report

Nov 23, 2019 | Reports

Community Development Halton (CDH), established in 1984, is an organization that operates 2 major programs: Social Planning and Volunteer Halton. It has in the last several years also been host to Age-Friendly work, an example of a role it has played over the years of...

Calculating a Living Wage for Halton – 2019 Update

Nov 4, 2019 | Front Page, Reports

This report documents the process and data used in the updating of a living wage for Halton Region for 2019. A living wage of $20.38/hour has been calculated for a Halton family of four (2 parents, one boy aged 7 and one girl aged 3). As with previous living wage...