{"id":57526,"date":"2021-08-20T17:23:21","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T21:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=57526"},"modified":"2021-08-21T17:48:53","modified_gmt":"2021-08-21T21:48:53","slug":"quadra-island-seniors-moving-into-freshly-completed-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/quadra-island-seniors-moving-into-freshly-completed-homes\/","title":{"rendered":"Quadra Island seniors moving into freshly completed homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The newest affordable housing project by Quadra Island Seniors Housing Society (QISHS) is welcoming tenants into its recently completed 16 units in Quathiaski Cove.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_57633\" style=\"width: 426px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a class=\"dt-pswp-item\" href=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/688-Harper-_Quadra-1.jpg\" data-dt-img-description=\"The Quadra Island community has been instrumental in the success of the Seniors Village project. Photo. courtesy of QISHS.\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57633\" class=\" wp-image-57633\" src=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/688-Harper-_Quadra-1.jpg\" alt=\"Two low bungalow-style buildings with a road in front - outside view of housing complex\" width=\"416\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/688-Harper-_Quadra-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/688-Harper-_Quadra-1-287x215.jpg 287w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 416px) 100vw, 416px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-57633\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Quadra Island community has been instrumental in the success of the Seniors Village project. Photo courtesy of QISHS.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.qishs.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">QISHS<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> president Maureen McDowell is delighted to reach this milestone in the seven-year undertaking, arranging homes for Quadra seniors in an affordable facility, with support availabe through the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/betterathome.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Better at Home<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> service program.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">She spoke about the outpouring of community support the Society has received, from gift baskets to homemade quilts for the tenants, as well as cash donations, volunteer labour and free materials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There are still about 30 names on the QISHS waitlist, and McDowell said \u201cthis is only a drop in the bucket\u201d in terms of meeting the housing needs on Quadra Island.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the CKTZ interview with McDowell below:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The newest affordable housing project by Quadra Island Seniors Housing Society (QISHS) is welcoming tenants into its recently completed 16 units in Quathiaski Cove.\u00a0 QISHS president Maureen McDowell is delighted to reach this milestone in the seven-year undertaking, arranging homes for Quadra seniors in an affordable facility, with support availabe through the Better at Home&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":57527,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57],"tags":[579,369,8923,6104],"radio":[252],"origine":[280,266,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57526"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57526"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=57526"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=57526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}