New housing project for homeless

“It’s another project for us to add to our housing stock and assist us in our goal of improving housing the city,” he said.

According to Howell they wouldn’t have had to go to federal government for the money if their funding wasn’t cut by the provincial government earlier this year. They lost 25 per cent of their annual income — $165,000.

“Certainly one of the things we’ve been forced to do is look for alternate ways to fund our operations, so any projects we do now have to pay their own way and contribute to the whole,” Howell said.

“Our commitment has always been to housing. We did it with the funding and we’ll do it without the funding.”

He said even though it was extra work to get money for the new facility, it will be well worth it.

“There is a big need for this group and for other groups of singles,” he said, adding in past years the government’s focus was on family housing, leaving single people behind.

“The goal is to help people in this situation that have brain injuries to have a proper place to live and a proper place to meet the requirements as they fulfill their life,” said Randy Hoback, Member of Parliament for Prince Albert.

Mayor Jim Scarrow, said it is a great project.

“There is not anybody in this room who couldn’t be part of that group in a second or two from now,” he said.

Howell said construction of the home on 28th Street East will being in the spring and it should be move-in ready by the end of August.

klavoie@rawlco.com

by Kellah Lavoie

New housing project for homeless

paNOW Staff

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