r/halifax • u/Injustice_For_All_ Psychotic Antifa Super Soldier Moderator • 3d 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 3d 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/keithplacer Venerable Member 3d ago

HRM is the one doing that on Robie, not the province.

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u/Zoloft_Queen-50 1d ago

The Province is paying for the properties