Ile-a-la-Crosse Housing Project Wins Award

Ile-a-la-Crosse Housing Project Wins Award

Monday, October 25, 2004 at 15:17

A housing project in northern Saskatchewan recently won a national award under the Canada Mortage and Housing Corporation’s five-year HomeFirst housing strategy.

Saskatchewan Housing Corporation president Darryl Jones says the program is aimed at helping create more affordable housing across the country.

The project in Ile-a-la-Crosse saw two unused duplexes relocated from the south to the village. The homes were then converted into two “fourplexes” — creating a total of eight housing units.

Jones says Ile-a-la-Crosse was the first community in the North to benefit, but there are other communities which have received simliar homes since the project began.

Jones says the cost for the relocated dwellings was almost $25,000 less than what it would have cost to build a new home of simliar size.