“Our own wait list for housing has grown to over 2800 applications. Many of those on the list are waiting an average of four to five years. In some categories it’s as high as 10 years to get housing.”
Mullin continued.
“It is working toward a strategy to see 7,000 affordable new homes, new rental units constructed over the next seven years to house people across our region here in Hastings County.”
Justice Robert Scott congratulates Warden Mullin as CAO Jim Pine looks on.
Mullin said, “By using a mixed public-private sector construction model, EOWC believes that it would leverage a total of approximately 30,000 new rental units. This would indeed be transformative. This is a multi-billion dollar plan. It will require all levels of government and private sector support but it is doable. The EOWC through the Eastern Ontario Regional Network has shown its ability to develop and deliver large regional projects. Tackling this portion of the housing supply crisis is something well suited to a regional approach and I hope that County Council, when the time comes, will give its full support to the project.”
“While the EOCW projects offer a good measure of long term improvement we need to continue to focus on our daily efforts to reduce homelessness by implementing meaningful programs. To do that the county will work, as it has in the past, with local partners that have demonstrated the ability to help assist individuals in finding long-term housing solutions.”
