Details announced for new public housing projects in Kentville, Bridgewater
The Nova Scotia government will build two new apartment buildings, in Bridgewater and Kentville, hoping to house as many as 119 people currently waiting to get into public housing. Nearly 600 people are on the list in those communities.
Nearly 600 people are on waitlists for subsidized housing in both communities
The Nova Scotia government is continuing to roll out projects tied to the promise it made last fall to build 222 new public housing units.
According to Nova Scotia government news releases, the provincial government will build a three-storey, 21-unit apartment building at 59 Exhibition Drive in Bridgewater. Construction is expected to start this spring and be completed by the fall of 2026.
It’s a much shorter construction schedule for an apartment roughly half that size in Kentville. The two-storey structure will go up at 55 Oakdene Avenue. It will have 11 units.
Both buildings will consist of a mix of one- to three-bedroom apartments. Those on the ground floor will be fully accessible.
All told, the public housing units will be home to as many as 119 people. There are currently 591 people on the public housing waitlist in both communities — 239 in Bridgewater and 352 in Kentville.
The money to build these new units is coming from the federal and provincial governments.
