Summerside Mayor Dan Kutcher stands in the city's council chamber after his swearing-in on Dec. 5. - Colin MacLean/SaltWire Network fileSUMMERSIDE, P.E.I. — “I’ve met with staff and that process has begun with respect to setting out the objectives and the vision for that task force,” he said, in a recent update to city council.
The object is to “come forward with solid recommendations for council to consider that will help increase housing supply and make housing more attainable across the entire spectrum.”He added that once launched, the task force would have six months to do its work. “Hopefully we will get to a point where we have a housing action plan that will feed into our official plan within the next number of months,” said Kutcher.
Prince Edward Island had one of the lowest vacancy rates in Canada in 2022 at just 0.8 per cent. That follows several years of a housing shortage that has dramatically increased the number of Islanders who are housing insecure. Colin MacLean is a reporter with the SaltWire Network in Prince Edward Island. He can be reached by email at