The City of Calgary, along with the Calgary Homeless Foundation and United Way of Calgary and Area, announced new funding of $14 million for three initiatives that would boost affordable housing.

“Any progress is good progress, but we are not moving fast enough at all orders of government in order to truly meet the need,” VCC executive director Meaghon Reid told Global News. “We’re really paying for the fact now that we weren’t projecting or building fast enough for what our projected need would be. So steps like this are fantastic to start to get us caught up.”

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