Thank You
Your calls, e-mails, texts, social media posts, letters to Council, and letters to the editor have helped to secure funding for 24 apartments for some of the most vulnerable members of our community.
On behalf of New Dawn and the Ally Centre, thank you for the outpouring of support over the last month. Your calls, e-mails, texts, social media posts, letters to Council, and letters to the editor have helped to secure the funding for the design and construction of 24 new apartments for some of the most vulnerable members of our community.
Your support has also made it clear that affordable housing matters to our community and that we are an overwhelmingly compassionate people – speaking up and out on behalf of those who are suffering, have been marginalized, and whose voices are often not listened to.
We also want to thank MP Kelloway, MP Battiste, and CMHC for making this much-needed investment of $5 million in the CBRM, and those Councillors who, from the beginning, understood that the New Dawn-Ally Centre proposal met the funds’ requirements and it that it was prudent to proceed, resolving questions and concerns through subsequent conversation, rather than return the funding to Ottawa.
We’ve already begun rolling up our sleeves and digging into building design and construction, picking up on discussions about onsite staffing and programming models, dreaming even more about creating beautiful indoor and outdoor spaces for our neighbours who have been made vulnerable, and infusing this moment with the joy (the jump-up-and-down joy) it deserves.
