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Utility and review board says it can’t waive Halifax Water fees for affordable housing

October 30, 2020 By Zane Woodford 4 Comments

Nova Scotia’s Utility and Review Board says it has no authority to waive Halifax Water’s fees for non-profits building affordable housing, and those fees are likely going up. In a decision released Thursday, the UARB approved Halifax Water’s request to increase its regional development charge, or RDC. The RDC is meant to pay for direct […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News Tagged With: Affirmative Ventures, affordable housing, Dalhousie Legal Aid, Halifax Water fees, Housing Trust of Nova Scotia, James Campbell, Ken Greer, non-profit housing, Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board (UARB), Ross Cantwell

Halifax council approves grant program for non-profit housing in regional centre

September 30, 2020 By Zane Woodford Leave a Comment

Halifax will provide grants to non-profit organizations building or renovating affordable housing using a new program approved by regional council on Wednesday. When council passed the first half of the Centre Plan — the land-use bylaw governing peninsular Halifax and Dartmouth within Highway 111 — last year, it agreed to a density bonusing policy where […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News Tagged With: affordable housing, Ben Sivak, density bonusing, Jill MacLellan, non-profit housing, Ross Cantwell, Willow Tree development

Dartmouth development to include affordable and accessible housing, but it needs help from government

September 16, 2020 By Zane Woodford 2 Comments

Plans for an affordable and accessible housing development in Dartmouth are nearing completion, but there are still significant financial hurdles in the way — indicative of the difficulties of building non-market housing in the Halifax area. Affirmative Ventures released the design for its Main Street development through project planner David Harrison this week. The plan […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News Tagged With: accessible housing, Affirmative Ventures, affordable housing, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC), Centre Plan, councillor Tony Mancini, David Harrison, density bonusing, Halifax Water fees, Main Street Centre, National Housing Co-Investment Fund, non-profit housing, Utility and Review Board

“I have never dealt with a landlord like this”

Tenant in north end Dartmouth building gets rent increase of 45% after making complaints about safety and maintenance issues.

July 5, 2020 By Suzanne Rent 3 Comments

A Dartmouth woman recently got a rent increase of 45% for what she believes is retaliation for making complaints about safety and maintenance issues in the building where she lives. Kimberly Rankin has lived at 6 Nivens Avenue in north end Dartmouth since January 2019. But this year, she started reporting issues around the building. […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: 6 Nivens Avenue, 77 Farrell Street, affordable housing, Ann Organ, co-op housing, Darcy Gillis, Dartmouth Housing Help, Elias Metlej, Kimberly Rankin, M-200 bylaw, Maggie-Jane Spray, Mario Morrison, MLA Susan Leblanc, non-profit housing, North Dartmouth rental market, Northview Apartment REIT, renoviction, rent control, Residential Tenancies, Tracey Morrison

PRICED OUT

A collage of various housing options in HRM, including co-ops, apartment buildings, shelters, and tents
PRICED OUT is the Examiner’s investigative reporting project focused on the housing crisis.

You can learn about the project, including how we’re asking readers to direct our reporting, our published articles, and what we’re working on, on the PRICED OUT homepage.

2020 mass murders

Nine images illustrating the locations, maps, and memorials of the mass shootings

All of the Halifax Examiner’s reporting on the mass murders of April 18/19, 2020, and recent articles on the Mass Casualty Commission and newly-released documents.

Updated regularly.

Uncover: Dead Wrong

In 1995, Brenda Way was brutally murdered behind a Dartmouth apartment building. In 1999, Glen Assoun was found guilty of the murder. He served 17 years in prison, but steadfastly maintained his innocence. In 2019, Glen Assoun was fully exonerated.

Halifax Examiner founder and investigative journalist Tim Bousquet has followed the story of Glen Assoun's wrongful conviction for over five years. Now, Bousquet tells that story as host of Season 7 of the CBC podcast series Uncover: Dead Wrong.

Click here to go to listen to the podcast, or search for CBC Uncover on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast aggregator.

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Two young white women, one with dark hair and one blonde, smile at the camera on a sunny spring day.

Episode 79 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Grace McNutt and Linnea Swinimer are the Minute Women, two Haligonians who host a podcast of the same name about Canadian history as seen through a lens of Heritage Minutes (minutewomenpodcast.ca). In a lively celebration of the show’s second birthday, they stop by to reveal how curling brought them together in podcast — and now BFF — form, their favourite Minutes, that time they thought Jean Chretien was dead, and the impact their show has had. Plus music from brand-new ECMA winners Hillsburn and Zamani.

Listen to the episode here.

Check out some of the past episodes here.

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