{"id":784782,"date":"2026-07-06T22:40:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T22:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/784782\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T22:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T22:40:12","slug":"ottawa-announces-nearly-7-million-in-funding-towards-seniors-affordable-housing-in-lethbridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/784782\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa announces nearly $7 million in funding towards seniors, affordable housing in Lethbridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/9a0c5ef2-33df-4294-b7a2-251a06b89f94-1-scaled.jpg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Transport Parliamentary Secretary Mike Kelloway makes funding announcement outside The Edward in Lethbridge July 6, 2026. (Image Credit: Dave Lueneberg | Lethbridge News Now)<\/p>\n<p>By Dave Lueneberg<\/p>\n<p>Government advocates for &#8216;all things Canadian&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tJul 6, 2026 | 2:59 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The federal government has announced\u00a0close to seven million dollars is being spent to\u00a0improve the seniors and affordable housing situation in Lethbridge.<\/p>\n<p>Parliamentary secretary for Transport, Mike Kelloway, on behalf of federal housing minister Gregor Robertson, said the money will come from Ottawa\u2019s Build Canada Homes strategy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s important to mention we\u2019ll double the rate of homebuilding in Canada with the industry that uses the technology that is necessary but using Canadian workers, Canadian lumber, Canadian supplies, all things Canadian.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kelloway said $2.23 million will go towards the refurbished Seasons Retirement Community, now known as the the Edward, establishing 50 living spaces.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Transport Parliamentary Secretary Mike Kelloway makes funding announcement outside The Edward in Lethbridge July 6, 2026. (Image Credit:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":784783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-784782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784782","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=784782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/784783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}