A planned affordable housing development at Eisner Cove in Dartmouth, North South Wales will push the state into a housing crisis. It raises questions about how we deal with.
Mount Hope Village occupies 45 hectares of land between theWoodside Industrial Estateand State Highway 111, with more than 700 middle-income "achieved" homes. We plan to build affordable housing. However, the designated site is currently the largest wetland in Dartmouth.
Protect Our Southdale Wetland Society president Bill Zebedee said the cost of the available units is expected to be around $1,500 to $1,800 a month, which is a lot of Nova Scotia. I say it's not affordable for people.
"Affordability is $500 to $800 for real affordable housing based on 30% of monthly household income," he said. "That's a big, dramatic difference."
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ACORN Canadian affordable housing advocate Freyja Beattie says new developments may be built elsewhere if they cause environmental problems. I'm here.
"There are other places you can go. Shannon Park, I'm not doing anything about it. I'm just sitting there. Quinpool, where the fair was. "It's just sitting there," she said.
Nova Scotia NDP housing critic Suzy Hansen believes the state government When considering affordable housing developments, he says, you need the perspective of those who live in the community. I can hear you.
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"If there is a problem here, if you need to investigate a little more, i.e. environmental conditions, environmental considerations, etc. , to explore that," she said.
Hansen acknowledged that options are limited when it comes to where affordable housing can be built, but the focus should be on how governments define affordability.
"If that is not the end goal, then providing affordable housing to those who need it most … is not the value of having such a development in such an area." It really will be what they say,' she said.
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to manage.
"Instead, we don't see that situation when we give developers the right to do this sort of thing," she said. "These are things we can do and things this government is not doing."
The Ministry of the Environment told Global News that an appeal is underway against the ministry's decision to authorize the change of wetlands. As such, he said he would not comment on this development.
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