NS government announces 22,600 new homes, and 373 of them will be affordable The province is giving Clayton Developments $21.8 million to hold rents between 60 and 80 percent of full market rates for 20 years. On Friday, March 25, the Nova Scotia government designated...

For Immediate Release March 22, 2022 Legislature coming back with no solutions for housing Rental housing providers are worried that proposed solutions to the housing crisis will continue to be ignored in the upcoming sitting of the Nova Scotia legislature. “For more...

Dartmouth tenants get eviction notices same day renoviction ban ends When the state of emergency ended on Monday, so did the province's ban on renovictions On the same day Nova Scotia's renoviction ban was lifted earlier this week, a representative from Elly Archer's...

Halifax council OKs restoration to Waverley Inn, 10-storey addition 'I feel this does meet the policy as written,' says Coun. Waye Mason Halifax regional council voted unanimously in favour of a proposal to restore the front section of the Waverley Inn on Barrington...

Fact Sheet for Tenants and Landlords  Download a Residential Tenancies created Renoviction Ban and Rent Cap fact sheet for distribution to the appropriate employees in your organization. Feel free to share the document with Investment Property Owners in your network....

Nova Scotia's population exceeded 1 million persons as of January 1, 2022 at 1,002,586. This is the highest population for Nova Scotia on record. Since April 1, 2015 Nova Scotia's population has increased by 66,315. Nova Scotia’s population increased by 3,754 (+0.4%)...

Proposal aims to lower electricity bills in Nova Scotia by more than $540 million Efficiency Nova Scotia has submitted a plan to reduce electricity and save customers in the province an average of $5 a month over the next three years Haligonians may soon get the...

In the Maritimes, tenants are getting hit with steep rent increases For the first 15 months of the pandemic, Mike Nantau lived at a motel in Stratford, Prince Edward Island, one of the few places that was affordable and accepted dogs. The price was right – $710 a...

Neighbours oppose seniors living, nursing home project in Fall River Many Fall River neighbours say a seniors housing and nursing home project is too big for their community. The project planned on Fall River Road involves four, four-storey buildings with 456 rental...

A landlord hiked rents again and again. Canada's housing agency rewarded him every time Federal housing minister tasked with stopping renovictions, but his own agency has been playing a role in them In the year after the final tenants living in a rundown pair of...