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“No one is coming to save us.”
In this Letter to the Editor, Marilyn Struthers of the Institute of Southern Georgian Bay’s Social Finance & Affordable Housing Group shares updates on the work her group is doing around housing and affordability — issues that topped one of our recent reader polls.
Struthers outlines how this cross-sector volunteer group has spent the last four years examining what’s gone wrong in our housing system, and what it will take to fix it.
The answer, she argues, lies not in waiting for outside help, but in building local capacity for change — together.
Letter: Social Finance & Affordable Housing Group Updates from Institute of Southern Georgian Bay
The housing crisis is affecting every part of our community, and people are worried.
We’ve been working largely behind the scenes for the last four years, as a cross-sector group of volunteers from businesses, local government and various housing interests to explore what has gone wrong in our local housing system. Two things have become very clear.
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A new Deputy Fire Chief announcement in Meaford, updates from M’Wikwedong IFC, a new bylaw being considered in Northern Bruce Peninsula, a lot more
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Miranda Miller
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