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WINNIPEG, MB, May 18, 2021 /CNW/ - Every Canadian deserves a safe and affordable place to call home. The COVID-19 crisis has made it clear that affordable housing is key to Canada s recovery for communities across the country, including those in Manitoba.
Today, the Honourable Daniel Vandal, Minister of Northern Affairs and Member of Parliament for Saint Boniface Saint Vital, on behalf of the Honourable Ahmed Hussen, Minister of Families, Children and Social Development and Minister responsible for Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC), along with Terry Duguid, Member of Parliament for Winnipeg South, Chief Larson Anderson of the Norway House Cree Nation, and Chief Glen Hudson of the Peguis First Nation, announced details of an approximately $16.6 million investment through the Projects Stream of the Rapid Housing Initiative (RHI) for the immediate creation of 80 units of affordable homes for First Nations in Manitoba.
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Shawenim Abinoojii executive director Jason Whitford and Brandy Kowal-Funk, program manager of Shawenim’s Memengoo program, outside Noble Court, which will be turned into affordable housing for youth and young adults. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press)
It doesn’t look like much, the dilapidated apartment building at the end of Alfred Avenue east of Main Street. Many of its windows are boarded up, shattered into sharp shards, or surrounded by a charred halo. Across most of its century-old red brick walls is a stream of graffiti befitting a building that’s been somewhat neglected and forgotten since a fire tore through it five years ago.