Halifax council votes to increase surplus properties to be used for affordable housing
Halifax Regional Council has voted in favour of increasing the number of surplus properties to be used for affordable housing opportunities.
“The land is very important. It’s absolutely significant, it’s one piece of the puzzle but it’s absolutely imperative,” Miia Suokonautio said, the executive director of YWCA Halifax.
Councillors voted on whether to approve seven surplus properties as affordable housing opportunities.
District 16 councillor, Tim Outhit, asked that one property be removed from the list to have staff further investigate potential uses for the site.
“I just want to make sure that it’s safe. Just to say that we have a housing shortage, or just to say that we need affordable housing, that every piece of land is suitable for residential development is not necessarily true,” Outhit said. …[Read More]