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Renderings and Public Dashboard site unveiled for rapid housing initiative coming to the North End of Sydney.

ALEX PAUL: Unsubstantiated fears associated with north-end New Dawn project (Cape Breton Post)

Answers to questions on harm reduction housing, property values, greenspace, community consultations, and the new housing's location, design, staffing, and more.

This Request for Proposals is an invitation from New Dawn Enterprises to prospective proponents to submit proposals for construction management services for the Glace Bay Youth Centre.

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.