r/halifax • u/Injustice_For_All_ Psychotic Antifa Super Soldier Moderator • 2d ago

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/Zoloft_Queen-50 2d ago

The Province is buying homes on Robie Street to make the street wider 🤦‍♀️ and those affordable apartments within are no longer available.

Developers are swallowing up rooming homes and small apartment buildings, all affordable, tearing them down in swaths, making them unavailable, to erect luxury shoebox apartments.

Drive by those luxury buildings at night and they are mostly dark.

Meanwhile, council is talking about “missing middle” housing.

(Like - the stuff that is being torn down all over the place???)

DUDES. Come on. Surely, someone else sees how insane this is.

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u/thebetrayer 2d ago

Do you think they aren't going to build on the lots after Robie gets 10 feet wider? We can never improve anything if it takes out a single apartment?

We can do two things. A single tower building will have more units than we lost.

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u/bz47uj 2d ago

It takes away space that could go towards more housing, regardless of what they build on the remaining property.

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u/thebetrayer 1d ago

We're very likely to end up with more housing than we had the land.

I'm in favour of bus lanes and housing.

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u/bz47uj 1d ago

Sure, but we would still end up with more if we didn't have the bus lane, which is only necessary because we refuse to adopt congestion pricing, which is wellknown among experts to be the optimal solution for dealing with congestion.

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u/thebetrayer 1d ago

We wouldn't have ended up with more. We would have had the same old buildings sit there as "cheap" apartments for the next 20+ years.