Jemma Lambert

Two city-wide priorities, and how to achieve them

• End homelessness through a rapid expansion of social housing, modelled on what she describes as the Finnish approach to Housing First: housing offered without conditions, spread evenly across communities, with optional supports. She argues this costs less than clearing encampments and the downstream service costs.
• End sprawl and high-rise-and-detached-home city design in favour of medium-density (two to eight storeys) development with strong transit and active transportation, arguing the current model costs more in infrastructure and service provision.

Two changes to improve City services

• Remove the ambulance surcharge, citing people on ODSP and fixed incomes.
• Improve the water-bill payment website, which she says looks like it was designed in the 1990s.

Two changes to improve quality of life in Hamilton

• Average water bills over a 6–12 month period, similar to property taxes, so people on fixed incomes can plan.
• Support a permanent Indigenous council seat independent of ward boundaries.

Two priorities for Ward 4

• Hold industrial polluters accountable (e.g. the proposed data centre and the Rain Carbon soot fallout), including using City-owned corporations as leverage.
• Finish the LRT and get HSR back to full speed, taking advice from the transit union and riders and minimizing delays.

Three words for a four-year term (looking back from September 2030)

Love, rage, and solidarity.