Tag: affordable housing
We asked you: How about those $200 Ontario cheques in the mail?
Amid a snap election, plenty of Londoners we sampled appear skeptical of Ontario’s $3-billion mass mail-out of money to virtually everyone.
London gets $75K, St. Thomas $4.1M from new encampment fund
Amid a flurry of splashy pre-provincial election announcements, there’s one that’s landing with a relative thud in London, the city’s miniscule share of $75 million in new shelter and affordable housing funding.
New homeless addiction treatment hub opening in Woodstock
Oxford County found itself on the receiving end of Queen’s Park investments, including a new homeless hub and $700,000 for housing
Ontario’s homeless population, in homeless encampments, is likely growing
The Association of Municipalities of Ontario calculated there were at least 1,400 homeless encampments in the province in 2023
Grey County passes on provincial encampment-removal funding
Grey County did not apply for provincial funding to remove homeless encampments but it is seeking money to build more rental housing. A memo to county council Thursday from community services director Anne Marie Shaw said the county had the opportunity to apply for Encampment Response Initiative funding, but the program didn’t suit the county’s […]