News & Updates
A record of LCCH's coverage in local and national media, alongside our own press releases and public statements.
Kingston City Council votes NO to 248 affordable housing units — in a housing affordability crisis; NO to near carbon neutral building in a climate emergency; NO to local food production of up to 1.9 million plant based meals a year in a council declared food insecurity crisis.
Link coming soonYourTV interview covering LCCH's vision and next steps.
Open link (opens in new tab)LCCH is a non-profit housing cooperative with a bold vision: to address food security through innovative integration of industrial-scale vertical farming with attainable co-op housing. Each day, this initiative will produce 1,500 nutritious meals, amounting to over half a million fresh, locally sourced meals annually.
Open link (opens in new tab)Radio interview on the LCCH project.
Open link (opens in new tab)LCCH is thrilled to announce a groundbreaking milestone with the signing of a letter of engagement to secure private funding to cover up to 95% of the residential development costs for its transformative housing project. With estimates placing the financing at about $100 million, this visionary project sets a new national benchmark for sustainable, attainable housing.
Open link (opens in new tab)Kingston Herald report on LCCH.
Open link (opens in new tab)Queen's Journal reporting.
Open link (opens in new tab)Kingstonist coverage of council debate.
Open link (opens in new tab)As problems in the world and locally accumulate, as shortages of housing grow, as the cost of housing becomes more unaffordable for more and more — at a time that the traditional models to help solve these problems are not working, something new, innovative, and different must be tried.
Open link (opens in new tab)Opinion piece on LCCH.
Open link (opens in new tab)When housing is treated as a commodity there are powerful incentives to increase its scarcity and therefore its price. Limestone City Co-operative Housing Inc. is a reaction against the commodification of housing — a non-profit, non-share capital, attainable housing co-op.
Open link (opens in new tab)Industry coverage of LCCH.
Open link (opens in new tab)Whig-Standard report.
Open link (opens in new tab)Kingstonist report.
Open link (opens in new tab)Land-use approval coverage.
Open link (opens in new tab)CFRC interview about LCCH.
Open link (opens in new tab)Coverage of City seed funding.
Open link (opens in new tab)Kingstonist coverage.
Open link (opens in new tab)LCCH press release.
Link coming soonWhig-Standard coverage.
Open link (opens in new tab)LCCH press release.
Open link (opens in new tab)Kingstonist article.
Open link (opens in new tab)LCCH press release.
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