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Affordable Housing

Province told that rural N.S. has ‘affordable housing crisis’ ‘But because it is hidden and not easily measured doesn’t mean that it doesn’t exist,’ says advocate Helen Lanthier’s message to provincial politicians...

Editorial

A Commercial Tax Freeze Inadvertently Impacts Housing Affordability. The Investment Property Owners Association of Nova Scotia (IPOANS) cautiously applauds the Halifax Chamber of Commerce for HRM to assist commercial landlords by freezing tax rates at 1.9%, a move...

Article of Interest

Serial rent dodger given full parole told to ‘remain productively occupied’ Nadav Even-Har cheated landlord, hotel operators out of thousands of dollars A serial fraudster and rent dodger in Halifax has won full parole and is on a trajectory to a better...

Affordable Housing

Plans for affordable housing project in Halifax cut in half Housing Trust of Nova Scotia has sold one Gottingen Street property, hopes to build on another After a decade-long push to build two apartment buildings with affordable units in north-end Halifax, a...

Development

Councillors reject staff recommendation, support proposed Dartmouth development 12-storey apartment buildings near Lake Banook one step closer to reality It’s not something you see often, but five Halifax regional councillors have chosen to go against a...

Development

Halifax Can Begin Development Of New Cogswell Neighbourhood HALIFAX – Construction of a new neighbourhood that will replace the current Cogswell interchange can finally begin moving forward. The Halifax Regional Municipality recently completed a land swap with local...