The time for talk about affordable housing has come to end for the United Way of Perth-Huron.
“The United Way is saying, ‘Hey, housing is at a crisis.’ The United Way is saying, ‘We need to do something about it.’ And, the answer, after doing lots of research and consultations over the last the past couple years, is that we need a new not-for-profit housing corporation that’s going to lead in this space. So, we’re here to set it up,” said Ryan Erb, executive director of the United Way of Perth-Huron.
United Housing launched Wednesday with a $540,000 fundraising campaign to get the initiative that will actually see United Way build and manage mixed rental model housing units in Huron and Perth County off the ground.
“We’re actually talking about from start to finish. We’d do the pre-development work, we’d raise the capital to get them built. We get the …