Manitoba aboriginal homeownership program to lose funding – CBC
Manitoba Tipi Mitawa on last 126K of cash from province earmarked for mortgage down payments
Jan 30, 2015
A Manitoba program that helps aboriginal people buy homes is in jeopardy after the province announced Friday it plans to stop contributing funding toward down payments for families in need.
The program, Manitoba Tipi Mitawa, helped Shelley Peebles sign her first mortgage recently.
”I never thought it would be here,” said Peebles. “But here it is.”
Peebles rented for years under the assumption that owning a home was the stuff of fantasy.
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