New housing minister Myers stands firm on Charlottetown Outreach Centre: ‘It’s not moving’ [Video]

Steven Myers, who has been Prince Edward Island’s housing minister for just over a month, says the Community Outreach Centre will remain at its current location on Charlottetown’s Park Street whether city councillors like it or not.

“It is not moving, and that’s the end of the story,” he said in an interview with CBC News after the topic came up in the legislature Tuesday, providing him with the first public chance to weigh in on the matter since he was shuffled from the Environment portfolio to Housing, Land and Communities on Oct. 9.

“Where else can it go? I mean, it’s winter. It can’t go anywhere else. I think the City of Charlottetown knows this too.”

The province provides funding to a third party to run the centre, located near the emergency overnight housing shelter made up of modular housing units on Park Street. But provincial officials had to get zoning variances …