There’s a formula that calculates the living wage for Renfrew County, and that figure, in 2021, was estimated at $17.60 an hour- but what’s the benchmark for what constitutes “Affordable Housing”?
Recent discussions in Arnprior surrounding the controversial Thomas Street South apartment proposal were that the units would be priced in the 1700 dollar a month range, with twenty percent of them deemed, “affordable.”
That’s Mayor Walter Stack, who says the issue of defining affordable housing is not a local mandate.
Although he supported the Thomas Street initiative, affordability was one of his concerns in the project as proposed.
As a representative at County over several years, Stack pushed for the location of the two Seniors apartment buildings bordering the Algonquin Trail in the community.
