YourTV interview: Innovative Housing Co-op & Vertical Farm coming to Kingston
Jan 20, 2025
YourTV interview covering LCCH’s vision and next steps.
News & Updates
Press Release: Housing and Food Security
Jan 17, 2025
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.
Press Release: $100 Million to Bring Innovative First of its Kind Co-op Housing and Vertical Farm project to Kingston
Dec 19, 2025
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.
Press Release: $2.29M ask
Sept 17, 2024
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, as inflation limits all our options, as we become more polarized, as community decreases, as distrust increases condemning many to loneliness and isolation, as the cost-of-living increases with food prices rising faster than wages, as climate change makes an uncertain future more and more scary, at a time that the traditional models to help solve these problems are not working, something new, innovative, and different must be tried.
Press Release: Housing op-ed
Sept 12, 2024
When housing is treated as a commodity there are powerful incentives to increase its scarcity and therefore its price. This dynamic is how most real estate works. It is not sustainable that housing should continue to go up faster than people can afford it. Limestone City Co-operative Housing Inc. LCCH is a reaction against the commodification of housing. We do not insist on a down payment or allow for capital to accumulate in housing. This is what LCCH means when we say we are a non-profit, non-share capital, attainable housing co-op.
Kingstonist: Council approves use of land for co-op housing
Feb 7, 2024
Land-use approval coverage.
Press Release: Funding approved
June 21, 2023
LCCH press release (PDF to come).
Whig-Standard: Council to be asked to support affordable housing development
June 15, 2023
Whig-Standard coverage.
Press Release: Seed funding for LCCH
June 15, 2023
LCCH press release (PDF to come).
Kingstonist: Council to appoint Councillor to LCCH Board
March 16, 2023
Kingstonist article.
Press Release: LCCH Press Release (v3)
March 13, 2023
LCCH press release (PDF to come).