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Housing Minister David Hickey says the emergency fund came from discussions of the Ministerial Taskforce on Homelessness and is aimed at the rapid creation of housing for people who are currently sleeping rough.
Projects with non-profits are expected to be announced soon.
Silas Brown · CBC News
· Posted: Oct 14, 2025 2:49 PM EDT | Last Updated: 37 minutes ago
Housing minister David Hickey says the new funding will help support emergency supportive housing. (Mikael Mayer/SRC)
New Brunswick’s minister responsible for housing has announced $7.4 million to spur the construction of more transitional housing units.
David Hickey says the fund came from discussions of the Ministerial Taskforce on Homelessness with the goal of rapidly creating housing for people who are currently sleeping rough.
“This is that interim funding to make sure we can get projects out the door faster, to make sure we can get more housing built in the interim so folks have a solution that’s not a tent in the middle of the winter,” Hickey said Tuesday.
The money is not intended to create shelter beds, Hickey said, but to help speed up the efforts of non-profits that are building what’s known as supportive or transitional housing.
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