{"id":39743,"date":"2025-08-01T16:27:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T16:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/39743\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T16:27:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T16:27:16","slug":"province-to-build-two-ltc-homes-affordable-housing-on-former-hamilton-psychiatric-hospital-lands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/39743\/","title":{"rendered":"Province to build two LTC homes, affordable housing on former Hamilton Psychiatric Hospital lands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ontario Minister of Long-Term Care was in Hamilton on Thursday to announce the purchase of the former Hamilton Psychiatric Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The property will include facilities like two long-term care homes, 41 affordable housing units, 270 senior housing units and 832 market housing units.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the Hamilton site is fully developed, 512 long-term care residents will have a modern and comfortable place to call home,\u201d says Natalia Kusendova-Bashta, minister of long-term care.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, 7 acres of land will be given to Mohawk College and for municipal conservation use.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement also included plans to convert Century Manor, a local heritage site, into housing as well.<\/p>\n<p>The property is at 290 Fennel Ave. West in the west end of the city, behind a Mohawk College campus.<\/p>\n<p>The property was purchased through the province\u2019s Surplus Lands Program, which allows the province to purchase unused and excess land for housing, health care and educational facilities.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chch.com\/chch-news\/hamilton-breaks-ground-on-new-police-fire-station-in-waterdown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark noopener nofollow\">Hamilton breaks ground on new police, fire station in Waterdown<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ontario Minister of Long-Term Care was in Hamilton on Thursday to announce the purchase of the former&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392],"class_list":["post-39743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}