New Rental Housing Project Opens In Prince Albert

Released on May 10, 2019

“CMHA Prince Albert branch is proud to be opening its third apartment complex in partnership with CMHC and SHC,” Kinar said.  “We had previously opened Maple Ridge, which has eight units, and Dave Rascher Place, with an additional eight units, in 2010 and 2016 respectively.  We believe adequate affordable housing is a primary component for maintaining positive mental health in our society.  Our Independent Living Program, which is attached to the tenants of our housing program, provides support and education to our tenants to enable them to live independently in spite of their complex needs as they move through their journey of recovery.”

Quick Facts:

• The Government of Canada, through CMHC, and the Government of Saskatchewan, through SHC, jointly contributed up to $612,500 to this project through the Canada-Saskatchewan 2016-2018 Social Infrastructure Fund Agreement.
• The Government of Canada is currently rolling out its National Housing Strategy, an ambitious 10-year, $40 billion plan that will create 100,000 new housing units and lift 530,000 families out of housing need, as well as repair and renew more than 300,000 housing units and reduce chronic homelessness by 50 per cent.
• Thanks to new investments proposed in Budget 2019, Canada’s National Housing Strategy will be a 10-year, $55 billion plan that will give more Canadians a place to call home. This project supports the Province’s Housing Strategy, Poverty Reduction Strategy and Mental Health and Addictions Action Plan to increase community capacity to ensure Saskatchewan people in greatest need, including people living with persistent and complex mental health and addictions issues, have access to affordable, safe and stable housing.
• CMHA Prince Albert provides a drop-in centre (The Nest), vocational, recreation, education and wellness programming, a community kitchen and a lunch program.  A dedicated employee provides independent living support to tenants through home visits.  Established in 1997, CMHA Prince Albert is a non-profit corporation focussing on assisting people with mental illness.

• As Canada's authority on housing, CMHC contributes to the stability of the housing market and financial system, provides support for Canadians in housing need, and offers unbiased housing research and advice to all levels of Canadian government, consumers and the housing industry.  For more information, please visit www.cmhc.ca or follow us on Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Facebook.  To find out more about the National Housing Strategy, visit www.placetocallhome.ca. 
• In October 2012, the Government of Saskatchewan released the Saskatchewan Plan for Growth: Vision 2020 and Beyond, which sets out the government’s vision for a province of 1.2 million people by 2020.  The plan identifies principles, goals and actions to ensure Saskatchewan is capturing the opportunities and meeting the challenges of a growing province.  Since 2007, the Government of Saskatchewan has invested more than $790 million to develop or repair more than 16,000 housing units across our province.  To learn more, visit www.saskatchewan.ca.