Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Sarah Smellie
Publication Date: July 31, 2025 - 07:43
Newfoundland town searches for solution to unexpected housing crunch
July 31, 2025
The affordable housing complex Mike Tiller is hoping for is unlike anything else in his community.
The sleek, modular buildings with sloping roofs and wide windows pose a sharp contrast to the brightly-coloured clapboard houses dotting the shores in New-Wes-Valley, a small fishing community along the northern end of Newfoundland’s Bonavista Bay.
Unpublished Newswire
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