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Council supports application for affordable housing project feasibility study funding

- Moose Jaw city council discusses local issues in council chambers at city hall during a regular council meeting. Carter Haydu photograph

Moose Jaw city council discusses local issues in council chambers at city hall during a regular council meeting. Carter Haydu photograph

Carter Haydu
Published on February 9th, 2010
Published on February 9th, 2010
Carter Haydu
Times-Herald
Topics :
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation , Moose Jaw Non-Profit Housing , Times-Herald , Manitoba Street East , Wakamow Valley

During Monday’s council meeting, council unanimously voted to support the ad-hoc housing development committee’s application for feasibility study seed funding from the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC), in the amount of $10,000.

The study would support the development of a housing project on Manitoba Street East, next to Wakamow Valley, which is still in the early stages.

Under consideration is a 16-unit affordable-housing project for young adults coping with long-term mental-health issues.

Submitting the funding application will be the Moose Jaw Non-Profit Housing Corporation. Council will instruct administration to issue a letter of support for the application.

Currently, the request for support is just that, a request for support, city manager Garry McKay said, adding the ad-hoc committee would have liked approval to commitment to funding, but it realizes that’s not the intent of Monday’s motion.

For more on this story, read an upcoming edition of the Times-Herald.

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    LU MOL
    - February 10th, 2010

    non-profit is a golden idea and should be placed everywhere.the money always recycles back to local coffers.besides it make the private sector have to bring about balance in which they dont want.proper housing is a real need in canada.cmhc just dont even see it on there map....

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    Stuart Griffin
    - February 14th, 2010

    Oh of course study the issue. Is there nobody on council that can think for themselves. The last thing needed is more beaucracy and red tape. By the time the issue of studying it to death is complete the problem will have only gotten much worse.

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