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Nova Scotia to start building public housing again after 3 decades
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By Rebecca Lau
Global News
Posted September 27, 2023 1:18 pm
The Nova Scotia and federal governments plans to build 222 new public housing units — the first time the province has added to its stock in nearly three decades.
During an announcement Tuesday, the province said the housing units will be made available to families, individuals and low-income seniors in rural and urban communities.
The units will be built on provincially-owned land close to existing public housing developments in Bridgewater, Kentville, Truro, as well as multiple locations in Cape Breton and Halifax Regional Municipality.
The province is pitching in $58.8 million to the project, while the federal government is contributing $24.4 million.
Public housing is residential space owned and operated by the government, with rent based on a household’s income rather than market rates.
The units will be operated by the Nova Scotia Provincial Housing Agency, a Crown corporation created in 2022 following a damning auditor general report that found the stock was poorly managed by the province’s five former housing authorities.
Nova Scotia has around 11,200 public housing units and the average age of the structures is 42 years. The last significant public housing project was completed in 1995.
https://globalnews.ca/news/9988823/nova-scotia-public-housing-announcement/
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Better late than never. we need a lot more than this however.
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