‘I’m homeless’: Jasper residents rally for housing amid breakdown in government negotiations [Video]

An Albertan who lost her home in the devastating Jasper wildfire last year says broken promises by the United Conservative Party government in setting up interim housing for those displaced are unacceptable.

“I don’t know why the UCP would commit and promise something and then just completely revoke it,” said Sabrina Charlebois, who has been living in a hotel in town since November.

“Because they’re not getting their way, they’re just pulling out completely? That’s unacceptable.”

Charlebois helped organize a protest Friday on the six-month anniversary of the blaze that displaced an estimated 2,000 Jasper residents.

More than 200 people marched through town, stopping in front of the municipal library.

Social Services Minister Jason Nixon announced in October that the province would spend $112 million to set up 250 modular housing unitsfor residents who lost their homes. At the time, Nixon said the first few homes would be ready …