CMHC attempting to download programs without consulting

Six Nations may find itself administering programs previously run by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) soon…but without the funds. In a report to Six Nations Elected Council (SNEC) meeting Feb., 13th councillor Helen Miller, who sits on the Chief’s of Ontario Committee on Housing and Infrastructure meeting said she and the committee were “blindsided” by the transfer of six CMHC On-Reserve Residential Rehabilitation Assistance Program (RRAP) programs to First Nations Housing Departments across Canada. “We were kind of blindsided, I guess you could say,” she said. “This is a big thing,everyone on the committee should have been told.” Miller said she later found out that Six Nations Housing knew about the transfer and that 100 per cent of the funding for those six programs is also being transferred,…

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