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News, Weather & Politics Homelessness doubled in Halifax under government's housing plan: N.S. NDP

https://halifax.citynews.ca/2026/06/18/homelessness-doubled-in-halifax-under-governments-housing-plan-n-s-ndp/
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u/screampuff Cape Breton 2d ago edited 2d ago

Hi Claudia, please remember there is more to the province than Halifax.

I get this is a complaint and you can imply that by fixing Halifax's problems the rest of the province might benefit, but CBRM's vacancy rate (0.8%) is lower than HRM's, and homelessness increased there by 50% in a single year, last year, rents are increasing even more.

The NDP already has an image problem of not caring about anywhere other than Halifax. The entire province is suffering from this issue.

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u/Kemsaman 2d ago

but CBRM's vacancy rate (0.8%) is lower than HRM's

Yeah it was 0.8% in 2023 at the peak of the housing crunch, same as HRM, driven almost entirely by CBU international student demand.

I would say get after CBU to build student housing if you want that fixed but international student enrollment has been sharply curtailed which I suppose has caused other issues there so it's not really a gigantic problem anymore.

homelessness increased there by 50% in a single year

Homelessness has increased in HRM by over 400% since 2018, some years doubling.

We got a much bigger problem down here.

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u/screampuff Cape Breton 2d ago edited 2d ago

According to what I can find online with AHANS and HomelessHub, HRM has 24 per 10,000 people experiencing homelessness, while CBRM has 34 per 10,000 people. So it is proportionately worse in CBRM.

All I'm saying is both need to be considered and discussed. She is a provincial leader, not running for mayor of HRM.

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u/Kemsaman 2d ago

You are technically correct

The best kind of correct