PROGRESS: District social services exploring ways it can help end homelessness
Board also looking ahead to the opening of the Timmins Community Food Services Hub
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Board also looking ahead to the opening of the Timmins Community Food Services Hub
Seven First Nation communities in the Kenora district are receiving federal funding to build affordable homes. Locally, the Rat Portage First Nation has been earmarked 3.8 million dollars for 10 new homes and Shoal Lake #39, $600,000 for six homes. Families, Children and Social Development minister Ahmed Hussen says this is part of the Rapid Housing Program launched by the federal government. “These homes will be completed and ready to be occupied by this summer and fall,” says Hussen. “So when we talk about rapid housing, we mean housing built very quickly.” Hussen the Trudeau govern...