Your article expressed the concerns of many, that people on low incomes will be forced out of the areas they presently live in. I would love to see legislation which required all new condo and apartment buildings to have one subsidized, low-rent home for every 50 units. This would give people a chance to live well all over Nova Scotia. We now have pockets of poverty where low-income people are forced to live. With all of the new construction in Bedford, Dartmouth, Halifax and beyond, there can be many low-cost homes created in high-cost buildings.
Please contact your MLA about legislating affordable or subsidised housing in every new development. Let’s give our MLAs a chance to redeem themselves with a humanitarian law which will dramatically improve the lives of thousands of Nova Scotians. Why not here? Why not now? —Terry Choyce, Bedford
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This article appears in Feb 25 – Mar 3, 2010.
this is a FANTASTIC idea. it is done on other cities across the country, from toronto to vancouver. it is a great way to get affordable housing built, and to ensure that a neighbourhood has a miz if incomes.
and to the people who will surely come on here and say this is a bad idea, please give other reasons than “who will would pay hundred of thousands of dollars to live next to a welfare bum” or “what developer will want to do this” because these arguments are moot and do not contribute to the discussion.
I agree – lets hope our heads in the sand city council gives this idea a feel at some point!