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National Take Action on Radon campaign launches
The Government of Yukon has partnered with the Yukon Lung Association to participate in Canada’s Take Action on Radon campaign.
New accessible seniors’ duplexes open in Carmacks
Yukon Housing Corporation’s first seniors’ social housing project in Carmacks increase Yukon’s rent-geared-to-income housing stock.
First call for Housing Initiatives Fund projects a success
The Government of Yukon will fund affordable housing projects in six communities.
Rent supplement program funding increased
The Government of Yukon expands rent supplement program to support more Yukoners to gain and maintain housing.
Eight affordable housing units under construction in Dawson
New affordable housing development underway in Dawson.
Partners break ground for innovative tiny house project
Partnership between the Champagne and Aishihik First Nations and the territorial and federal governments to bring 10 tiny homes to Haines Junction.
Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation will receive housing funding
Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation will build utility buildings in Old Crow with funding from the federal and territorial governments.
Yukon Housing Corporation and the BC Non-Profit Housing Association host Northern Housing event
The housing networking event and tradeshow will be held in Whitehorse on June 12.
Government of Yukon opens a Housing Initiatives Fund
Funding for innovative housing projects is available through a new Housing Initiatives Fund. Project proposals can be submitted until June 29, 2018.
First Nations participate in housing design workshop
The workshop was held to gather ideas about the best way to design and build multi-unit residential buildings across Yukon communities.