Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - After years of anticipation,  construction has finally begun on the Rainbow Ridge affordable housing project in downtown Mansons Landing.

“We had an open house a couple of weeks ago, and we had a lot of back and forth with the seniors village next door. We made some considerable changes to our plans based on their input. Then Monday, we started clearing the land in preparation for phase 1 of our project,” explained Sadhu Johnston, Executive Director of the Cortes Housing Society.

“Phase 1 is to clear the land and build the infrastructure that we need, which is the water and the sewer and get electric in and build a community building. That will be our first structure on the land, and then we hope to build seven townhomes later this year. We're going to be needing to raise the money for the townhomes, but we've got the first chunk of money set aside for getting all the infrastructure ready to go.”