Lambton County sticks with long-term plan for public housing repairs

A successful multi-year effort to maintain Lambton County’s more than 830 public housing units will continue, and grow, through 2035. County council recently endorsed a new 10-year plan that will see $4 million already being set aside annually for public housing maintenance grow by $100,000 each year, from 2027 to 2035, eventually raising $44.5 million in total. “The majority of our housing stock was built in the 1960s and 1970s” and is “significantly old,” said Mel