A Halifax non-profit says it helped seven clients sign leases to secure affordable housing in one week. All the individuals have been homeless for at least six months some up to a year.
Public housing tenants on Gottingen St. in Halifax have discovered the entire apartment building has little to no insulation in its walls. They say this means paying high power bills to heat their units, or bundling up in cold apartments.
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Some residents of a public housing building near Liverpool, N.S., say they are frustrated after months of murky brown tap water and they're questioning why they weren't told sooner that it contained high amounts of lead.