The Pulse: Nova Scotia’s housing crisis
JOHN DeMONT: The Samaritans of Halifax’s Grand Parade
Every shelter in the tent city in Halifax’s Grand Parade holds a human story: of misfortune and bad luck, of the plain hardness of life, of the steely resilience of people with their backs against the wall.
The tent Matt Grant and Steve Wilsack share is home to a different narrative.
The Loophole that landlords use to evict at will
Jennifer Corbin’s landlord showed up in her driveway and it quickly became clear the single mom and her three children needed to find a new home.
It’d been barely two years since the family moved into the three-bedroom apartment in Fairview. At the time, Corbin was happy just to have a roof over her family’s head and a place she could afford.
Now her landlord wanted the family out and soon
Nova Scotia woefully unprepared for perfect storm leading to housing crisis.
Nova Scotia was woefully unprepared for a perfect storm of socioeconomic factors that led to the current housing crisis.
“It’s essentially a supply and demand issue,” said Lori Turnbull, director of the school of public administration and an associate professor of political science at Dalhousie University in Halifax.
“The supply has not kept up with the need, the demand, which has been steadily increasing.”
Game teaches non-profits to build affordable housing
No dungeons or dragons here — just affordable places for people to live.
A roomful of non-profit leaders, consultants, architects, government planners and officials recently gathered in Halifax for a role-playing game where the goal is to learn how to get affordable housing projects off the ground.
