Province adds 22 affordable housing units in Miramichi

Savannah Awde · CBC News

· Posted: Jul 10, 2025 5:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: July 10

The state has added 22  new units to the nationalist lodging banal successful Miramichi, wherever the waiting list now sits at 530 radical and families.  

That's according to Housing Minister David Hickey, who said Wednesday that the summation marks the archetypal clip successful 30 years that caller nationalist units person been built successful Miramichi.

The metropolis volition soon spot a 10-unit analyzable for families connected Henderson Street and a 10-unit seniors' analyzable connected General Manson Way.

Hickey did not person a timeline for erstwhile radical could statesman to determination into those units. Two families have moved into a caller duplex connected Warren Avenue.

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"That's our committedness — to proceed to marque definite that we are gathering faster than we have," Hickey said astatine an announcement successful Miramichi connected Wednesday.

He said much than 500 individuals oregon families are waiting for affordable housing and upwards of 100 radical are living rough in the Miramichi region.  

The auditor wide reported 13,129 households were connected the subsidized lodging waiting database astatine the extremity of 2024. Of those, 3,601 were listed arsenic senior, 4,173 arsenic household and 5,355 arsenic non-elderly.

The New Brunswick Housing Strategy, produced successful 2023, aims to trim that waitlist to 7,500 by 2026.

Mayor Adam Lordon said Miramichi is trying to conscionable the request with a extremity to adhd 240 units a twelvemonth until 2030. 

"Miramichi, implicit the past fewer years, including past year, is gathering caller lodging units astatine astir doubly the nationalist average," Lordon said. "And we're going to request more."

Lordon said the metropolis donated surplus onshore to get the 22 caller units built and has introduced incentives for developers to opt for affordable builds.

"We've made gathering caller housing, successful peculiar affordable housing, a top-tier economical improvement priority," helium said successful an interview.

"We've reduced the time, from the clip that the [zoning] process begins present successful Miramichi, the unit person it down to astir 4 months."

Beyond the summation successful Miramichi, the state said by quality merchandise connected Wednesday, enactment is underway connected 137 caller units successful 14 locations. 

Hickey credited the erstwhile authorities with shifting toward gathering caller stock. 

It had been 40 years since New Brunswick built new nationalist units, according to a authorities quality release, erstwhile erstwhile societal improvement curate Jill Green added 24 to Fredericton past year.