Province announces $6.4M for new housing units
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The provincial government is spending $6.4 million for 67 more social-housing units as part of a plan to get homeless people out of encampments.
The Your Way Home plan to move people into housing with needed supports was announced in January.
The 67 units are being established in collaboration with Main Street Project, Siloam Mission and Sunshine House.
“We are very excited to be partnering with Siloam Mission and the province for this new housing project,” Jamil Mahmood, executive director of Main Street Project, said in a news release Friday.
“It is good to work alongside other organizations that have been doing this work for a long time and who understand the challenges in housing previously chronically homeless individuals and know how to support them in successfully maintaining housing.”
The news release said 17 encampments have been cleared in less than three months. It’s not clear whether that includes an area where new makeshift shelters recently appeared in an area along Waterfront Drive that was cleared not long before.