The downtown ward is home to numerous renters and houseless residents, with encampments increasingly prominent in its parks and other green spaces over the past two years.
A mortgage agent on ODSP and an accountant who lives in downtown Hamilton will try to unseat Ward 1 councillor Maureen Wilson, one of the city's more progressive elected officials.
As the deadline to register to run in this fall’s municipal election looms, there are now multiple councillor candidates registered to run in each of Hamilton’s ridings except Ward 6.