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The same year, Nova Scotia's auditor general released a report critical of the management of public housing in the province. [2] The Nova Scotia Provincial Housing Agency was established by the Housing Supply and Services Act, which replaced the Housing Act and Housing Nova Scotia Act in late 2022. [3] Under the new legislation, NSPHA was ...
Gloucester Non-Profit Housing 1087 Cummings Avenue (Gloucester) [1] Emily Murphy Non-Profit Housing Cooperation [2] (Blackburn Hamlet) Multifaith Housing Initiative. Blake House; Somerset Gardens; Kent House; Ottawa Community Housing [3] Albion - Heatherington (Heron Gate) Albion Gardens (Heron Gate) Ashgrove (Huntclub/Uplands) Banff/Ledbury ...
The 2009 Canadian federal budget allocated funds for the period covering 2009–2011: renovation and energy retrofits to social housing ($1 billion); to build housing for low-income seniors ($400 million); to build social housing for persons with disabilities ($75 million); to support social housing in the North ($200 million); low-cost loans ...
Graffiti of homeless in Quebec City. Homelessness in Canada was not a social problem until the 1980s. [1] The Canadian government housing policies and programs in place throughout the 1970s were based on a concept of shelter as a basic need or requirement for survival and of the obligation of government and society to provide adequate housing for everyone.
Numbers may be ported between landline and mobile. The rarely used non-geographic area code 600 is an exception to this pattern (non-portable, and allows caller-pays-airtime satellite telephony); some independent landline exchanges are also non-portable. Mobile phone providers support either CDMA or GSM; both are being supplanted by UMTS.
The Transition House Association of Nova Scotia (abbreviated THANS) is a Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada-based organisation that runs women's shelters. [1] THANS was founded in 1989. [2] THANS organises an annual purple ribbon awareness campaign in memory of the École Polytechnique massacre. [3]
The LIHTC provides funding for the development costs of low-income housing by allowing an investor (usually the partners of a partnership that owns the housing) to take a federal tax credit equal to a percentage (either 4% or 9%, for 10 years, depending on the credit type) of the cost incurred for development of the low-income units in a rental housing project.
The 1973 amendments provided financial assistance for new home buying, loans for co-operative housing, and low interest loans for municipal and private non-profit housing. [6] As such, the federal approach was shifted to low-income housing from "social," segregated public housing to "comprehensive" housing policy and included provisions for non ...