National SPRE Accelerator 2025
Location: Owen Sound, ON
Website: nphousing.ca
Contact: Shari Huber, Executive Director: shari@nphousing.ca
Mission
The Owen Sound Municipal Non-Profit Housing Corporation and Owen Sound Housing Company‘s mandate is to provide and operate housing accommodation with or without any public space, recreational facilities, and commercial space of buildings appropriate thereto primarily for persons of low or modest income at rentals below the median current rental market in the area. The sole purpose of Owen Sound Housing Company Limited, as per its members, was to construct and operate a low rental housing project in the City of Owen Sound in accordance with the National Housing Act, 1944.
Project
Redeveloping an existing property built in 1950 to relocate existing residential; demolish the existing buildings; and redevelop the property to increase the density of affordable housing.
In the Accelerator, they will
Build on project progress already made to explore the feasibility of the development of an affordable housing apartment complex, while developing a plan to assure housing affordability and sustainability for existing and future residents.