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Ford government pumping more into Indigenous housing support program

PC MPP Kevin Holland, the parliamentary secretary to the Indigenous affairs minister, on Tuesday said the province was awarding the funding to Miziwe Biik Development Corporation as part of a total $10.4 annual haul.

Published May 16, 2023 at 8:29pm

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Ford government pumping more into Indigenous housing support program
Steve Clark, Ontario’s Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing, speaks to journalists at the Queens Park Legislature in Toronto on Wednesday, November 16, 2022. (Chris Young/The Canadian Press)

The Ford government is providing an additional $2.9 million to a Toronto not-profit to bolster efforts to prevent Indigenous homelessness.

PC MPP Kevin Holland, the parliamentary secretary to the Indigenous affairs minister, on Tuesday said the province was awarding the funding to Miziwe Biik Development Corporation as part of a total $10.4 annual haul. The funding comes from the government’s Indigenous Supportive Housing Program (ISHP).

Holland said the funding would help the MBDC deliver “meaningful resources to the Greater Toronto area's most vulnerable, so more people have an affordable and most importantly, a safe place to call home in Ontario.”

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