“We have our emergency shelters and our emergency housing program and then our future plans to continue building on affordable housing, accessible housing for seniors across the province,” she told reporters.

“So everything that we do here at First Point and in our future social enterprise endeavors will help build the sustainable funding to go back into helping us provide securely these programs for those in need.”

In the meantime, Connections for Seniors is hosting a housing forum this Monday to focus on what it calls “urgent solutions to the growing shortage of affordable housing for seniors.”

Guests include Finance Minister Craig Pardy, Deputy Mayor Ron Ellsworth and a representative of the Y-Foundation in Finland, Juha Kahila, who will share best practices in that country.