Brockville, Ont. to construct supportive housing cabins for homeless population [Video]

An initiative from the Joint Services Committee of Leeds and Grenville will bring roughly two dozen supportive housing cabins to Brockville, Ont. later this year.

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The committee, which consists of 13 mayors from municipalities in the Leeds and Grenville region, has noticed an uptick in homelessness in rural communities.

“I can tell you as a mayor of a rural community, we do see it in our villages,” said Brant Burrow, the committee chair and Mayor of Elizabethtown-Kitley, a township just outside of Brockville.

“This wasn’t really a front of line issue in the city of Brockville prior to the COVID-19 pandemic,” added Brockville Mayor Matt Wren.

“But coming out of that, it became very clear that our small community had a significant homelessness problem, and the numbers don’t seem to be getting any better.”

The …