New funding for Huron County to fight homelessness [Video]

One of the largest affordable housing developments in Huron County’s history is nearing completion in Goderich.

The $13 million, 40-unit project near Goderich’s downtown should be ready to take on low income tenants next year.

It is the centrepiece of Huron County’s homelessness prevention plan that is seeing more than $20 million invested in nearly 70 new affordable housing apartments across the county.

“We are really proud of the work that’s being done here to support folks who are in crisis or are very vulnerable, or in precarious housing,” said Huron County’s Homelessness Housing Programs Supervisor Erin Schooley.

Schooley said they know of at least 131 unhoused people in Huron County, at least 20 of those being families. That’s up from 96 unhoused people earlier this year, but down from nearly 200 back in 2021.

An unhoused male sleeping in Courthouse Square park in Goderich in August 2024. (Scott Miller/CTV …