A new housing development in Westphal, Nova Scotia is welcoming eight black families, as part of an initiative to provide affordable housing to vulnerable populations.
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HALIFAX Nova Scotia will spend more than $1.8 million on three projects which will create more than 50 affordable housing units in Halifax. The province announced details of the Rapid Housing Initiative in HRM on Monday. The joint project by the federal, provincial and municipal government, will see three projects built that will create approximately 52 affordable housing units. The federal government had previously announced an investment of $8.7 million for the initiative. We need to act quickly to address the unprecedented housing market that currently exists in our province, and these projects are a significant step in the right direction, said Chuck Porter, N.S. minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing. We will continue to work with our partners to identify opportunities to protect vulnerable Nova Scotians now, while the Nova Scotia Affordable Housing Commission continues its work to find long-term solutions.
Caora McKenna/ HRM Halifax’s board of police commissioners didn’t make it through all the items on its agenda again this week, and all the things that did get discussed also got deferred. So technically there s nothing concrete to report but there are things worthy of reporting nonetheless. The commissioners voted to defer a decision on body-worn cameras to their next meeting, asking for more information from HRP after what was supposed to be a pilot-project feasibility report was presented as a five-year all-in plan. Former commissioner Tony Mancini asked for the report in July, noting that the last time HRP had looked into body-worn cameras in 2017, one main reason not to go forward with the project was the price. He guessed that it’d be cheaper to implement now with advances in te