Immigration, Population and Skills Minister Gerry Byrne says the federal government won’t be giving the province any more to go towards housing.

The Government of Newfoundland and Labrador is ready to commit to its share of the $5 million dollar ask, but the federal government is not committing to any funding currently. Byrne says this is hard to hear since they applied under the Rapid Housing Initiative requesting the province's share of taxes that have already been paid. He says this is "unacceptable" and they will be appealing this decision. Byrne says they expect NL MPs to stand up in Ottawa and support housing growth and the needs of people.

Locally, he says 32 units of social housing in Corner Brook are boarded up and need to be torn down - they are not livable. The Corner Brook MHA wonders how these units ended up this way. He says the die was cast and the damage was done on those social housing units back in 2007. Byrne says that’s when the then PC government knew Dunfield Park was in serious need of an overhaul. They commissioned a study on the matter and hid the findings, Byrne says, and adds that year, there was a $1.4 billion dollar surplus and very little was put into housing. Meanwhile, Byrne invited the housing minister and senior executives of the Newfoundland and Labrador Housing Corporation (NLHC) here yesterday to talk about solutions.

Listen to CKVB's story below with the minister and other stories on the Deer Lake RCMP looking for a missing man, a third party review underway on care homes, and post secondary students having new online resources: