City Hall looking at affordable housing plan
A new affordable housing strategy for Grande Prairie will go before a future city council meeting.
Affordable housing coordinator Reed Des Roches presented the scope of work involved in the Affordable Housing plan at Tuesday’s Community Living Committee meeting.
The plan involves six phases which include extensive stakeholder engagement. Affordable Housing Coordinator Reed Des Roches says right now the city is in the first phase of the plan.
“The first phase is the one we’re in now, which is information gathering,” says Des Roches. “This is the point where I analyze statistical data from Statistics Canada, CMHC, and our inventories on non-market housing. We use that information to identify what populations are most in need of affordable housing, where the gaps are in our supply of non-market housing, and what supports we could add to our programs.”