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Boris and Paul on CKMS-FM 102.7 Radio Waterloo
Bob of CKMS-FM 102.7 Radio Waterloo talks with Boris and Paul of Love Your Neighbour Communities or LYNC. The conversation centred around attainable housing for the community and the current project in New Hamburg. To listen or read more, go to...
The paddling duck is taking flight: Public involvement ramping up for LYNC’s Mill Block Community
By Galen Simmons, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter For nearly a year, the volunteers and community leaders behind an effort to redevelop a more-than-a-century-old mill in the heart of New Hamburg to address the local housing shortage have used the comparison of a...
New Fundraiser: The Story of a Mill
The housing crisis has not gone away—and neither have we. Because housing matters. Because people matter. And because the future of our community depends on it. At LYNC, we’ve faced every challenge that comes with building something bold and new: layers of...
LYNC receives funding from the Green Municipal Fund
With so many issues facing our world today, how do you choose between the priorities of mitigating climate change and dramatically increasing the availability of affordable housing? At Love Your Neighbour Communities, we believe these priorities go hand in hand....
March 21 Wilmot Tavistock Gazette Issue
Read it here: https://lyncommunities.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/WTGazette-Mar-21-24.pdf
Here’s what homelessness looks like in rural Waterloo Region
Waterloo Region's rural townships are beginning to see homeless people. There aren't any shelters, so they live in their cars, sleep on a friend's sofa, or pitch a tent where they hope they won't be seen. Trisha Robinson, executive director of the Wilmot Famiy...
Housing proposal would add parking spaces to New Hamburg core
There has been discussion about building affordable homes over public parking in the region, however a housing development proposed for New Hamburg’s core would help create a new off-site lot with more public spots. “I can hear our downtown businesses jumping up and...
The mayor of Wilmot Township says she cannot afford a home in her own township
Buying a home even with a decent income is challenging. Renting a home on a low income while supporting a family or living with a disability is practically impossible! Read about how even our own Wilmot township mayor struggles to find affordable housing in our rural...
This former feed mill in New Hamburg will be turned into affordable housing by community group
A community group wants to turn the empty B&W Feed Mill in downtown New Hamburg, Ont., into affordable and attainable housing units. The non-profit organization Love Your Neighbour Communities (LYNC) say they want to create a community hub at the Peel Street...
New Hamburg feed mill to transform into affordable housing
When opportunity knocks, you answer. That's essentially the backstory to a new affordable housing project looking to convert an old feed mill in New Hamburg. "When the feed mill went up for sale we thought, why allow this to be torn down or to go to an outside body to...