Kendall Worth: Ignorant ideas about welfare I hear a lot
Kendall Worth tackles the stigma of disability and poverty, especially when dealing with landlords who don’t understand the first thing about the realities of income assistance.
Housing
News brief. ACORN poor persons’ municipal candidate survey
ACORN Nova Scotia asked municipal candidates in North End Halifax, Dartmouth East, Dartmouth Centre and Spryfield where they stand on issues that matter to people who live in poverty. Things like affordable housing, slum landlords, and pay day loan sharks. Here are their responses.
Poverty is a municipal issue, say activists
Some excellent points were made at a well-attended press conference organized by low income people in the North End on the topic of poverty and the municipal election. It fell a bit on deaf ears, though, as just one reporter and one municipal candidate made an appearance.
Rent strike: 30-day countdown starts while Liberal MLA offers support
Tenants of social housing in Spryfield and elsewhere are tired of waiting for repairs, and are resuming their countdown to a full blown rent strike. Liberal MLA Brendan Maguire is offering his full support to the group that issued the strike call.
News brief: The poor persons guide to the municipal elections
Some questions ACORN Nova Scotia suggests you should ask as you chat with municipal candidates this Fall.
Rent vacant North End condos to local residents, demonstrators say
North End condos are standing empty. These same condos are pushing long time residents out of their neighborhood. Acorn Nova Scotia says, why not rent them out for a rent people can afford?
Rent strike. Public housing tenants are tired of waiting for repairs
Tired of waiting for repairs and tired of promises, public housing tenants in Spryfield and elsewhere are talking about a rent strike.
Greystone pictorial. The state of public housing in Spryfield
Photos taken in and around public housing units in the Greystone Drive area during the last few weeks. All these units are currently occupied. Things have been like this for very long times.
“You just don’t do this to people.” Good and bad news for Spryfield public housing tenants
Tenants of Metro Regional Housing in Spryfield are taking charge. They are planning a store, a laundromat, a rec program, and much more. They also want to keep the pressure on their landlord to finally deal with a huge rodent infestation and units in continual disrepair.
Op-ed: Affordable housing and the Bloomfield Centre debacle
The government walking away from Bloomfield is a disastrous blow to affordable housing. North End gentrification will continue unabated.