DSB in talks with Aboriginal Housing over Gore Bay properties
Following an in camera session at the October meeting of the Manitoulin-Sudbury District Services Board (DSB), a motion was made to allow the DSB to begin negotiations with Ontario Aboriginal Housing Services (OAHS) for the disposition of two of its three Gore Bay properties....
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‘They don’t have a home’: Kenora, Ont., shelter re-sets its focus
A downtown homeless shelter is getting ready to reopen its doors again full-time. After being forced to close in August over community concerns, the homeless service hub has restructured its hours. It now operates as an emergency shelter only – open every evening from 7 p.m. to 8 a.m. – and will for the next three months....
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Superior Morning with Lisa Laco – Justin Marchand on Junot Street Transitional Housing
Thunder Bay city council has rezoned a property on Junot avenue to make way for a transitional housing facility for Indigenous youth. Justin Marchand is the executive director of Ontario Aboriginal Housing Service which owns the facility....
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Youth transitional housing facility on Junot Avenue approved
Published on: October 22, 2019 THUNDER BAY – A proposed youth transitional housing facility on Junot Avenue that has generated both support and opposition from people living the area will go ahead. Thunder Bay city ...
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‘It’s the foundation of life,’ says future homeowner
Aboriginal Housing Services (OAHS) is pleased to announce a partnership with Habitat for Humanity Sault Ste. Marie and Area (HFHSSMA) to assist a local indigenous family achieve homeownership.
For future Habitat and OAHS Homeowner Danielle Moore, this opportunity will provide her family with a sense of stability; a sense of belonging and place to call home. ...
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Ontario Priorities Housing Initiative Home Repair Program – Apply Now!
Ontario Priorities Housing Initiative (OPHI) Ontario Renovates 2020/2022 Home Repair Program is a forgivable loan program that will assist low to moderate income Indigenous homeowner households to repair their primary and sole residence to bring them to acceptable standards while improving the energy efficiency of the unit. ...
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Ontario Priorities Housing Initiative (OPHI) – Request for Proposal (RFP)
Ontario Aboriginal Housing Services is pleased to announce the release of the Ontario Priorities Housing Initiative (OPHI) Request for Proposal (RFP) – Year 2. This RFP consists of a Rental Housing Component (Capital Funding) and a Rent Supplement Component.
Ontario’s Community Housing Renewal Strategy is a multi-year plan to stabilize and grow Ontario’s community housing sector, with the aim of achieving multiple outcomes and measures of success....
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Council supports MOU for Bawating Urban Indigenous Hub project
The first step has been taken that could see the Gateway site sold and a Bawating Urban Indigenous Community Hub and Housing Development created on the site (in Sault Ste. Marie)....
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Bawating Urban Indigenous Hub and housing proposed for Gateway site
Sault Ste. Marie’s Gateway site could be transformed to a Bawating Urban Indigenous Hub.
City council will need to give its approval and allow staff to enter into a Memorandum of Understanding with the Bawating Urban Indigenous Committee to make the site available for the development, subject to finalizing the terms and conditions of an agreement....
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Province delivers $2.5 million for Indigenous housing in North Bay
The province announced $2.5 million to help build an apartment building for Indigenous people, as well, offer support services like addiction counselling, cultural services and mental health supports. The new housing development will be located across from the North Bay Indigenous Friendship Centre and will include 30 units....
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Housing project for homeless opens Thunder Bay’s fault lines of race, class and crime
As Northwestern Ontario grapples with what to do about Indigenous poverty, one neighbourhood has become the focus of fierce debate....
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Cities to parties: Fill housing gaps for seniors, Indigenous people
Canada's cities want all the federal parties to promise to pour billions more into the national government's decade-long housing strategy to make sure that seniors, urban Indigenous people and low-income renters aren't left behind by the tens of billions in already pledged spending....
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OAHS says 600 new housing units needed in Kenora
A 30-unit supportive housing project on Ninth Street North is moving forward, but more is needed according to the executive director of the Ontario Aboriginal Housing Services. ...
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Ontario Aboriginal Housing Services seeking land for more affordable housing in Kenora
OAHS, one of the organizations behind a planned affordable housing build in Kenora, says the project will not only provide a home for over two dozen people but is also designed to help tenants find stable housing and other social supports....
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Community swings in support of Junot transitional housing project
Ontario Aboriginal Housing Services hosted a public meeting on Tuesday, July 30th and welcomed overwhelming support of the once controversial transitional housing project....
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Local Homelessness Prevention Team earns provincial honour
The Sault Ste. Marie and District Homelessness Prevention Team (includes OAHS members) is the proud recipient of the Local Municipal Champion Award presented by the Ontario Municipal Social Services Association (OMSSA). ...
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OAHS to provide 14 new units to address homelessness in West Nippissing
On June 26, 2019 Marc Serré, Member of Parliament, announced a federal government financial commitment of over $2.16 million for a West Nipissing Housing Development being developed by Ontario Aboriginal Housing Support Services Corporation....
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CTV reports on West Nipissing and area net-zero housing development
Justin Marchand, Executive Director of OAHS, commented that over 200 people are looking for safe and affordable housing in the West Nipissing and Sturgeon Falls and how these 14 units will help to address some of the need on the waitlist. ...
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Sault Steelers to Honour Don McBain’s Memory at Saturday’s Game
June 11, 2019 – The Sault Steelers and Ontario Aboriginal Housing Services invite you to come cheer on your home team this Saturday, June 15th and honour the memory of the late Don McBain who passed away in September of 2017. ...
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An Ontario mayor has linked his town’s issues to colonialism. Will it make a difference?
By Jon Thompson - June 3, 2019 SIOUX LOOKOUT — There’s a homelessness crisis in a northwestern Ontario town, and the mayor says he can’t solve it. That’s because, according to him, it takes more than local ...
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