SYDNEY — A Cape Breton non-profit enterprise dedicated to community building has expressed great disappointment after learning Cape Breton Regional ...
Alyce MacLean, housing development project manager with New Dawn Enterprises: "What it sounds like to me is the CBRM is saying that the administration of this is difficult, and in light of that, they don’t want to deal with this.
According to a CBRM request for expression of interest document, the municipality had been selected in December to receive direct funding from a federal government rapid housing initiative as part of a cities stream — which amounted to $5 million. That money would go straight to the CBRM to ensure that new affordable housing developments for vulnerable populations can be built.
As New Dawn’s submission request form outlined, “We began work on this project in the summer of 2022 in anticipation of a third round of RHI funding and with the understanding of the critical and urgent need for housing for some of our community’s most vulnerable residents.” It appeared from the document that New Dawn’s proposal checked all the right boxes.
District 7 Coun. Steve Parsons, along with Deputy Mayor James Edwards , put forth a motion to accept Ruus’s recommendations. Both councillors, along with District 12’s Lorne Green and the mayor, favoured the recommendations; however, vetoes from the remaining councillors meant the motion was defeated 6-4 .
“I don’t doubt that there are frustrating, constraining, time-consuming hurdles that are involved in the administration of a fund that you just got plunked into your bank account two months ago. However, when you hear of someone sleeping in a tent in the dead of winter, to me it deserves making some effort to keep our community's members housed.”
According to Leviten-Reid and MacLean, 259 people have been identified recently as homeless in the CBRM, up from 137 in 2016 and more than double the 115 identified in 2018.
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