City of Hamilton under fire by local tiny homes companies for ordering shelters made in China

Residents voice concerns over new tiny home community

SAINT JOHN • East siders may soon be getting 75 to 80 new neighbours, with the planning advisory committee voting in favour of a new tiny home community near the city’s shopping district.

City of Hamilton under fire by local tiny homes companies for ordering shelters made in China

A co-founder of Grand River Modular in Brantford says he’s “utterly appalled” at the City of Hamilton’s decision to order cabins for its first outdoor shelter from a newly formed Ontario company that ordered them from China.

Well-established Indigenous tiny home company says it could’ve delivered shelters to Hamilton on time – Sky News: The Latest News from the World

The co-founder of an Indigenous-owned, tiny home manufacturer in Brantford, Ont., says he’s “utterly appalled” at the City of Hamilton’s decision to order cabins for its first outdoor shelter from a different company that ended up getting them from China.  Grand River Modular’s chief operating officer, Matthew Jacznik, told CBC Hamilton his team had reached out […]

Staff to produce full report on purchase of tiny shelter units from Microshelters

If not sooner, it appears there could be some answers to growing public concern around the purchase of the 40 tiny shelters now being installed at the Barton-Tiffany encampment site in March. Councillor John Paul Danko successfully moved  a motion that will have staff provide a full accounting of what led up to the purchase of the units from Microshelters-a Brantford company that was incorporated three weeks after Mayor Horwath announced she was…