The release of the Long-Term Affordable Housing Strategy (LTAHS) brings with it winds for big change in the affordable housing sector. Likely to pass in the spring, the Housing Services Act has yet to write the regulations that it will bring. The regulations, which won’t be known for at least another year, will have an effect on Service Managers and housing providers.

Among the changes outlined in the LTAHS, is the potential for more flexibility and decision-making for municipalities when it comes to delivering affordable housing. A way in which authorities will be able to exercise this newfound flexibility is in how they use provincial resources.

Margie Carlson, Director of Policy, Research and Networks at SHSC, explains that the LTAHS states that it will consolidate 20 provincial housing and homelessness programs. The structure of this program has yet to be determined, but presumably the idea is that people can pick and choose which program they want.

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