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Peterborough Poverty Reduction Network and converted into The Mount Community Centre, a non-religious, non-profit corporation with charitable status, and affordable housing units.
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acquiring the former Mount building as a community asset. The network agreed to purchase the property on July 30, 2013. The space is now run by a non-profit corporation known as The Mount
Community Centre. The former dormitories have been converted into affordable housing units.
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