16-07-2018 21:35 via huffingtonpost.ca

Affordable Housing Overhaul Could Leave Indigenous Families Homeless: Advocates

OTTAWA — Indigenous social housing providers will soon push the federal government to rethink plans to overhaul their funding arrangements because they worry the Liberal proposals could leave thousands of low-income families on the street.Federal officials are set to start consultations on how to spend almost $500 million in the coming years as federal operating agreements expire and a new funding scheme is put in place to subsidize rents.The hope is that housing providers will shift to ne
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