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Affordable Housing

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...

Opinion

Ursula Prossegger – Landlords shut out Last year, I wrote to The Chronicle Herald about the challenges landlords like me face. We must pay our taxes, regardless of whether tenants pay rent; We bear all the risk in financing, operating, and maintaining housing;...

OPINION

AMANDA KNIGHT: Rent cap a vice-like trap for landlords in Nova Scotia Amanda Knight lives in Pictou County and continues to own rental properties in Colchester and Pictou counties, having recently sold her building in Colchester County. She is a member of the board of...

Student Housing

Plans underway for on-campus housing at NSCC’s Ivany Campus Several public tenders have been issued for the project Plans for on-campus, student housing at a Nova Scotia Community College site in Dartmouth are underway. Several public tenders have been issued...

Student Housing

‘Desperate pleas:’ Halifax university students struggling to find housing “We’re seeing a bit more increase in housing prices, as well as some of the property owners getting out of the rental market… and engaging in other types of rental or selling family homes.” A...