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By Marc Lalonde \u00a0Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Federal Auditor General Karen Hogan’s report that the federal government has massively failed First Nations communities on matters of housing funding comes as no surprise to anyone in the community who has tried to access funds for housing projects, Mohawk Council of Kahnawake executive operations officer Alan John Rice said. Rice said Tuesday morning that Hogan’s report, which showed very little had improved for First Nations housing since 2015, sounds about right. “That’s how I look at it,” he said. “There is absolutely funding available for housing projects but there are so many deadlines and hoops to jump through that it’s almost impossible to get anything done.” Rice said that the reporting required by the government to release housing funding is so rife… <\/p>\n

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By Marc Lalonde \u00a0Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Federal Auditor General Karen Hogan’s report that the federal government has massively failed First Nations communities on matters of housing funding comes as no surprise to anyone in the community who has tried to access funds for housing projects, Mohawk Council of Kahnawake executive operations officer Alan John Rice said. Rice said Tuesday morning that Hogan’s report, which showed very little had improved for First Nations housing since 2015, sounds about right. “That’s how I look at it,” he said. “There is absolutely funding available for housing projects but there are so many deadlines and hoops to jump through that it’s almost impossible to get anything done.” Rice said that the reporting required by the government to release housing funding is so rife... <\/p>\n

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