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Even as we gather the resources needed for eco-affordable construction, we’re looking ahead to a time when the buildings are ready for occupancy, and the community we hope to nurture and grow in partnership with residents, neighbours, and local organizations already at work building a healthy, compassionate, and just Muskoka.
Since the initial offer of land from the Town of Huntsville, the development concept has changed numerous times, from the first draft of 40 affordable homes for purchase alongside a single G.R.E.A.T. sixplex, to a much more ambitious plan on a larger property with room for with room for at least two G.R.E.A.T. sixplexes plus another 149 units, many of them purpose-built rental housing.
Meet Melinda Zytaruk, board director for the Muskoka Community Land Trust, General Manager of Fourth Pig Green & Natural Construction, and CEO of TookeTree Passive Homes
Meet Tatiana Sutherland, board director for the Muskoka Community Land Trust and District and Town Councillor for Bracebridge.
It will take a “wartime effort” involving everyone at every level to create enough affordable housing for Muskoka
If we don't start thinking about housing as a social good first and foremost, we are right to anticipate gentrification and displacement with new development; we are right to expect opposition to affordable housing and growth; and we are prudent to prepare to live in an increasingly unaffordable and exclusionary Canada.
Rural communities from coast to coast to coast are realizing that they need to embrace innovation or embrace obsolescence