Tag: Affordable Housing

New Dawn is honoured to support the Ally Centre of Cape Breton in naming the Rapid Housing Initiative building Eleanor’s Court in memory of the late Eleanor Young.

Check out the RHI Winter Newsletter update, a means to keep the public and surrounding community informed about the RHI development’s progress and next steps.

New Dawn CEO joins Alison Coldwell, Coordinated Access Manager, CMHA, Annapolis Valley, and Sunday Miller, Property Consultant, Akoma Holdings Inc. in a disucssion of housing and human rights hosted by the Nva Scotia Human Rights Commission.

On Tuesday October 17, 2023, New Dawn and the Ally Centre hosted a Community Information Session on the RHI housing development planned for Charlotte Street.

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.

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.

“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.