The Ottawa Community Housing project will fund housing for seniors, families, Indigenous people and those with developmental disabilities.
The money, announced in Ottawa on Wednesday by Minister of Housing Steve Clark, will fund up to 138 affordable and supportive units of the 271 homes at Mikinak in the Wateridge Village on the site of the former Rockcliffe air base.
The money is in addition to $48 million in funding for Ottawa through the province’s Homelessness Prevention Program. It also helps offset what the city felt was its minuscule share of a $202-million pot to address homelessness province-wide. Ottawa received just 0.4 per cent of that $202 million, a portion the provincial government said was based on a new formula using up-to-date stats.
“This money today allows us to fulfil a requirement that we felt was not being fulfilled with the previous funding,” Sutcliffe said to reporters after the announcement. “In the end, the total amount of money we’re getting to address homelessness and affordable housing in Ottawa has just gone up by $24.1 million and that’s great for the City of Ottawa.”
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