Ottawa Community Housing breaks ground on Gladstone Village project [Video]

A groundbreaking was held Tuesday afternoon, for what will be new affordable urban housing.

Ottawa Community Housing has announced a new development downtown, which in its first phase will see 336 new affordable homes – and that plan is only the beginning.

Gladstone Village is located within walking distance of public transit, just steps from Little Italy.

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“We will see bedrooms from a studio to four bedrooms, apartments being built right in the center of Ottawa, in Centretown, next to Corso Italia,” Stéphane Giguère, CEO of Ottawa Community Housing Corporation tells CTV news Ottawa. “And the beauty of it, it’s transit oriented, it’s mixed use, and in a very vibrant community,” he says.

The development is bordered by Somerset Street, the O-Train Trillium Line, and Preston Street.

It comes at a time when the need …