ANTIGONISH: The Town of Antigonish will be applying to a federal program that incentives local government improving their housing supply.
Mayor Laurie Boucher told reporters following their regular, council meeting on July 17; council is aware of a housing crunch in their community and has decided to make use of the Housing Accelerator Fund.
“It’s imperative we do something about it, as soon as possible,” Mayor Boucher said. “We need housing, I call it “The Three A’s.” We need Accessible Housing, Affordable Housing and Available Housing. We know there are people living in inadequate housing.”
Something the mayor indicated isn’t always attributed to being a financial issue.
“You have doctors and nurses and professors from the university not able to stay because of lack of housing opportunities,” Boucher said.
According to information on the Housing Accelerator Fund, the application window closes on August 18.
