What does the term affordable housing really mean? - Halifax Examiner
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Researchers with the Housing Research Collaborative at University of British Columbia have created a tool to help cities figure out how much affordable housing stock they need. Carolyn Whitzman is a social housing policy consultant and one of the researchers behind the Housing Assessment Resource Tools (HART), a project that creates standardized ways to figure […]
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Province to pitch in $1.8 million over 20 years to cover deficits
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Good news! People living in tents can now buy $800,000 homes in
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A housing crisis in Massachusetts: Rethinking the single-family
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The housing economy: people with money prey on people struggling
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It's not unkind to criticize systems that keep us in the dark
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Housing and homelessness: 'Building supportive communities as much
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How bad is the housing crisis in Nova Scotia? No one knows
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Halifax has a month to figure out how to spend $8.7 million on
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From helping to hating: the public view of homelessness is
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The housing crisis is several crises in one - Halifax Examiner
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Councillors approve Cole Harbour affordable housing development on
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10 reasons affordable housing is hard to deliver - Halifax Examiner
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PRICED OUT - Halifax Examiner
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Halifax is short 17,500 new housing units — and the gap is growing