Calgary gets new affordable housing development

A caller affordable lodging improvement successful Bridlewood could assistance 250 Calgarians find lodging stability.

Built connected the tract of a erstwhile occurrence hall, the 62-unit townhouse improvement to beryllium managed by the Calgary Housing Company volition usage a mixed-income exemplary for low- and moderate-income residents.

“The metropolis is committed to delivering caller affordable homes to conscionable the expanding request for lodging for Calgarians of each income levels,” Mayor Naheed Nenshi said successful a statement. “Access to harmless and unchangeable lodging contributes to the wide health, prosperity and information of our city.

“Housing is astir homes, and homes are astir gathering community.”

Built with environmentally-friendly materials and energy-efficiency successful mind, the metropolis volition prosecute LEED for Homes V4 certification.

Fourteen of the two-bedroom units person been built barrier-free, with the full analyzable being wheelchair accessible. The homes are besides wrong walking region of transit and a market store.

Area councillor Diane Colley-Urquhart said the caller homes and families volition articulation an established community.

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“The caller residents volition beryllium connected with caller neighbours and friends successful 1 of the astir beauteous and welcoming neighbourhoods successful Calgary,” the Ward 13 councillor said successful a statement.

“Bridlewood residents and adjacent businesses person been engaged close from the get-go connected this development, and arsenic a effect is 1 of the champion successful people successful Calgary.”

Funding comes from a premix of municipal, provincial and national sources, with the Canada Mortgage and Housing Company contributing $50,000 from the Seed Funding programme and the provincial authorities providing $8.1 cardinal from the Municipal Sustainability Initiative.

According to the city’s affordable lodging strategy, Calgary needs 15,000 caller affordable homes to scope the nationalist average. Nenshi has antecedently said this would outgo astir $500 million.