Local plan left out of rapid rehousing cash
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Do you agree with the city’s decision to collapse certain advisory boards into one, nine-member Community Vibrancy Board?
Yes
Southern Alberta’s mid-sized cities have apparently been passed by for federal grants meant to build affordable housing projects and spur construction activity during the pandemic downturn.
This week the Lethbridge Herald broke the story that the Rapid Rehousing Fund had not approved money to a hotel into units for people transitioning out of homelessness.
A developer with connections to Medicine Hat tells the News his local proposal to convert the Cecil Hotel on N. Railway Street for the same purposes was also denied funding in grant decisions that are officially due today.
Business owners object to day shelter locale
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Do you agree with police and health authorities shutting down, fencing off Grace Life Church near Edmonton?
Yes
Downtown business owners plan to formally object to a daytime homeless shelter that is now operating near the downtown intersection of Third Street and Sixth Avenue.
They say groups of shelter users congregate near their storefronts on one of downtown’s busiest street, and better space could be found.
Announced in mid-December, it provides space during daytime hours to those who access overnight shelter space, as well as providing certain social service resources to others, say administrators.