[CPEO-BIF] Affordable housing on Brownfields (Canada)

[Lenny Siegel]

[The same practice is common in the U.S., and it poses a dilemma. 
"Affordable" housing is needed, but should brownfields sites, many of 
which end up with residual contamination, be relegated to poor people?]


Press Release
Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing
October 26, 2006

Affordable housing targeted to brownfield sites

TORONTO, /CNW/ - The Government of Canada and the Government of Ontario 
today allocated funding for a minimum of 300 units under the 
Canada-Ontario Affordable Housing Program to be built specifically on 
cleaned-up brownfield sites.

The announcement of the Affordable Housing Program - Brownfields 
Initiative was made today by the Honourable Diane Finley, Minister of 
Human Resources and Social Development Canada, and John Gerretsen, 
Ontario's Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing.

"Canada's new government is proud to contribute to the development of 
new affordable housing units at Toronto's brownfield sites that are now 
clean, green and safe," said Minister Finley. "We will be providing 
hundreds of families with secure, affordable housing and a better 
quality of life, and at the same time breathing new neighbourhood life 
into an area that has been dormant."

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For the entire release, see
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/October2006/26/c4822.html

-- 
Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org