by The province has announced five million dollars in funding for the Tartan Downs housing project in Sydney.
Cape Breton University and the Urban Neighborhood Development Association are partnering on the mixed-use development that will include student housing.
The funding is part of an eight-million-dollar effort announced today to help maintain student residences, increase student housing options and ease pressure on the housing supply.
Three million dollars of the money is going to the Atlantic School of Theology in Halifax to preserve and maintain accommodations used by students from several schools.
The province says it’s continuing to do work to develop a student housing strategy in the coming months.