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Your calls, e-mails, texts, social media posts, letters to Council, and letters to the editor have helped to secure funding for 24 apartments for some of the most vulnerable members of our community.

Cape Breton Regional Municipality is going to spend $5 million in federal affordable housing money after all.

A rendering of a revised two-storey 120 foot X 56 foot 24-unit development on the vacant lands behind the New Dawn Centre (former Holy Angels High School).

I am disappointed to see continued harmful rhetoric regarding the Ally Centre of Cape Breton and their clientele amidst the discourse of the Rapid Housing Initiative funding conversation of the past few weeks.

“Shame on CMHC!” exclaimed Coun. Cyril MacDonald, referring to the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.

The current Cape Breton Regional Municipality (CBRM) housing fiasco is not a new problem, but rather a sequel to last year’s tax-cut debacle.

“It’s deeply shocking, and I think it’s appalling,” said Alyce MacLean, housing development project manager with New Dawn Enterprises in Sydney.

Patti McDonald has a message for Cape Breton Regional Municipality council and other community leaders in the region: try living outside for a night and see how homelessness feels.

New Dawn and the Ally Centre have proposed a 24-unit safe, affordable, staffed supporting housing project for a diverse array of Ally Centre Clients - those most at risk of homelessness in the CBRM. Read more about the proposal here.

New Dawn and the Ally Centre were dismayed to learn today that CBRM Council is moving to return $5 million in funding for affordable housing to the federal government.

New Dawn has published its application to the CBRM RHI City Stream Request for Expressions of Interest. New Dawn is calling on the CBRM to hold a public Council meeting to discussion its decision to return $5 million in affordable housing funding the federal government.