Searching for Home Ownership

Offers education, services, and housing consulting including:

suitePEAS (Private Elegant Affordable Spaces):

• a program to repurpose existing larger single family homes to create five single suites or units where five like-minded women 55+ will live in a safe, affordable community environment
• a new form of micro housing - small, compact, low cost, low tech, low risk, innovative and affordable
• financially viable and environmentally sustainable
• this micro housing model can accommodate women with limited income and capital as well as women who are seeking community and are willing to pay market prices for their homes
• suites can be owned or rented

Woodside Mews consists of 30 independent living garden homes designed to blend with the surrounding community

• owned and operated by the Rotary Club of Oakville
• homes are purchased with a life lease

Buying or selling:

• Trafalgar Senior Homes maintains a waiting list of potential purchasers
• contact their office to add your name to the list
• may sell or transfer a life lease at fair market value at any time to an approved purchaser from Trafalgar Senior Homes waiting list
• when selling a life lease original owners are able to retain 95 per cent of the selling price of the home

Activities include:

Building projects
Builds homes for low income families, primarily with volunteer labour and donated materials
* homes are mortgaged by Habitat for Humanity Halton at no interest to low income families, who provide an investment of sweat equity in the form of 500 hours of labour

ReStore:
Sells affordable home products, new clothing, toys, and new and used building materials such as doors, windows, shelving, kitchen cabinets and hardware
* funds raised support Habitat for Humanity programs
* for more information see separate listing here

Donation Methods:
Drop off at ReStore location or schedule a residential donation pick-up

Volunteer opportunities:
ReStore Warehouse Personnel, ReStore Product Pricer, ReStore Driver's Assistant, ReStore Customer Service/Merchandiser, ReStore Cashier, Resource Development Assistant (Office), Special Events Crew/Ambassador team

• volunteers renew used items or build something new for ReStore to sell

• houses are sold to selected homeowner partners at cost with a no down payment, no-interest mortgage (mortgage payments are recycled to build other homes)
• future homeowner partners work a minimum of 500 volunteer hours as "sweat equity"

• material donations can be picked up during store hours:

• attainable home ownership
• down payment support available

• houses are sold to selected homeowner partners at cost with a no down payment, no-interest mortgage (mortgage payments are recycled to build other homes)
• future homeowner partners work a minimum of 500 volunteer hours as "sweat equity"

• material donations can be picked up during store hours:

• houses are sold to selected homeowner partners at cost with a no down payment, no-interest mortgage (mortgage payments are recycled to build other homes)
• future homeowner partners work a minimum of 500 volunteer hours as "sweat equity"

• material donations can be picked up during store hours:

1. Wellington Affordable Homeownership Down Payment Loan Fund, and
2. Ontario Renovates

• Shepherd Lodge and Shepherd Terrace Long Term Care Facilities (see separate entries)
• Shepherd Terrace Retirement Suites
• Shepherd Manor Seniors Apartments
• Shepherd Gardens Life Lease Residences. The home is a designated Pentecostal facility.

• Shepherd Gardens - Life Lease
• Shepherd Lodge - Long Term Care Home
• Shepherd Manor - Seniors Apartments
• Shepherd Terrace - Retirement Residence

• living and dining room
• eat-in kitchen
• heated solarium
• storage and closet
• laundry closet with rough-in for clothes washer and dryer
• ensuite bathroom off of master bedroom
• heating and air conditioning
• mart-metered electrical service

• Resident lounges and social rooms
• Games, exercise and reading rooms
• Main floor common room with kitchen
• Coin-operated laundry rooms on the second and fifth floors
• Workshop/crafts/hobby room
• Car wash bay
• Garbage chute and Recycling room
• Exercise and fitness rooms
• Bike and scooter storage
• Resident storage lockers
• Two elevators
• Security entrance system
• Underground parking
• TV monitored security surveillance in lobby and parking garage
• Lush landscaped grounds
• Wheelchair accessible common

• Engaging volunteers and partners in the community, the ReStores and on the build site
• Building and rehabilitating safe affordable family homes
• Building financial stability; creating a potential pathway to homeownership

• Engaging volunteers and partners in the community, the ReStores and on the build site
• Building and rehabilitating safe affordable family homes
• Building financial stability; creating a potential pathway to homeownership

• Ontario Renovates program - a homeowner's financial assistance home maintenance repair program, for low to moderate-income households
  
• B-Home (Brantford Home Ownership Made Easier) program - gives financial assistance for a down payment on a home, to low-income earners

• provides professional property management services for city-owned residential housing located within the City of Brantford and County of Brant County, including both subsidized and non-subsidized residential housing properties
  
• provides contract management services for municipal and private non-profit housing corporations on a fee-for-service basis

• 45-apartment style and 20 bungalow-style units.
• Personal care and assistance with activities of daily living offered by Home and Community Support Services Central and Community Home Assistance to Seniors (CHATS) - click HERE to view the assistance offered
• Located next to Parkview Village Centre, which provides fitness / wellness centre, recreational activities, health seminars, café, barber/hairdresser shop, library, lounges, patios, and garden lots