Broad Support for Saskatoon’s Affordable Housing Plan, But Landlord Group Offers Warning – Rental Housing Business
May 21, 2024
An affordable housing program with faults is better than no program at all, a city hall committee heard while discussing how Saskatoon will distribute $41.3 million from Ottawa’s housing accelerator fund.
“No funding formula is perfect. We’ll take what we can get,” said Angela Bishop, board chair of the Camponi Housing Corporation, a Métis-led non-profit.
Bishop told the committee Camponi has a shovel-ready project waiting for funding and more than 300 families on the wait-list for affordable housing.
On Wednesday, the city’s planning and development committee voted in favour of the proposed plan. It now needs final approval at a future city council meeting.
