The Ontario government is giving Ottawa $24.1 million to support a community housing project on the former CFB Rockcliffe site.
Housing and Municipal Affairs Minister Steve Clark announced the funding Wednesday alongside Ottawa Mayor Mark Sutcliffe. The funding would support an Ottawa Community Housing building on Mikinak Road that would provide 271 homes for seniors, families, Indigenous people and people with disabilities. More than 20 per cent of the homes would be accessible.
The 2023 Ontario budget announced an additional $202 million per year in funding for supportive housing and homelessness projects in municipalities across the province. The city received an increase of $845,100 over 2022 funding, which Sutcliffe said"Toronto will receive $48 million. That's almost 60 times as much, despite Toronto's population being approximately three times larger than Ottawa," Sutcliffe wrote in an open letter to Clark and Premier Doug Ford.
City council declared a housing and homelessness emergency in Ottawa in 2020. Three years later, Ottawa's shelter system is significantly over capacity, according to the Alliance to End Homelessness Ottawa .
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