Hastings County has put on hold the plan to sell off its single detached houses and take another route on housing.
About four years ago Hastings-Quinte social services decided to sell the 47 single detached homes it owns and build 50 new multi-residential units.
That plan has been abandoned and the affordable housing issue will come under review.
Director of Community and Human Services Erin Rivers tells Quinte News the challenge is people are not leaving the single housing units.
Rivers hopes the review will indicate the best way to go. “We’ll be looking at the need in our current wait list. We’ll see what’s out in the individual municipalities and communities in regards to affordable housing.”
She added, “They were going to sell 47 and build 50 multi-residential in apartment-style buildings. So we were only going to gain an extra three units out of that whole project. And I think behind it was (the idea) it was more or less cost-saving efficiency with a newer model as opposed to keeping the older single detached homes.”
While the review is underway the five single housing units that had been vacated will be put back in service, removing five families from the waiting list.
