Peel Region will be receiving $103.4 million in federal funding to support its ongoing asylum and refugee services, representatives announced at a news conference Friday.

The Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada funding will be delivered between 2025 and 2027 and support projects like rental subsidies and building new homes.

“This new investment will allow us to move beyond temporary hotel contracts and into permanent purpose built spaces for families,” said Mississauga Mayor Carolyn Parrish at the news conference.

“We are committed to continuing this work to ensure every level of government plays its part in turning short-term crisis response into long term community integration,” she said.

In the first half of the year, 61 per cent of refugees who came to the Peel Region were

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