City to seek out housing study grant opportunity from NDIT

Monday's Prince Rupert City Council session saw City Council throw their support behind a bid to seek out some grant money from the Northern Development Initiative Trust, part of that body's funding towards the study of housing needs in Northern British Columbia.

At Monday's session, the City's Communication Manager Veronika Stewart outlined what the program offers and noted that much of the work that the city might need to do in relation to the study is already in place.

"Prince Rupert has already done a lot of work on this during planning for Major Projects in terms of what kind of housing requirements are in the community. So what we want to use this grant for is to update our existing data set and also make any changes that we might need to, in order to meet with the new requirements that are anticipated"

The background to her report to Council can be found below:

The Northern Development program provides for one time grant funding for local governments to develop a comprehensive housing needs assessment that meets the requirements of the Local Government Statutes Amendment Act, up to 200,000 is being made available over the next two years as part of the program.

One time grant funding per eligible local government will be up to $10,000 to a maximum of the eligible project budget.

More on the NDIT project can be found here.

You can review Ms. Stewart's presentation to Council from the City's Video Archive starting at the thirteen minute mark.





For more items of interest related to Housing in the Northwest see our archive page here.

A look at Monday's City Council session is available here, while a wider overview of past Council discussion themes can be reviewed here.

Cross posted from the North Coast Review.