Local plan left out of rapid rehousing cash
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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.