Today, I announced over $14 million in new funding to better prevent and support those who are chronically unhoused across the Halifax Regional Municipality.
Since we formed government, we’ve delivered more housing here in HRM. We’ve helped organizations buy and preserve affordable housing, and we’ve delivered funding to build new affordable housing.
Housing like Main Street Centre, Mount Hope Village and True North Crescent— where families and individuals in Dartmouth are already calling many of these newly constructed houses—home.
But too many people are chronically unhoused and too many are without safe and appropriate shelter at all. That’s why we need all orders of government working together to eliminate chronic homelessness.
Here’s what we delivered today:
$8.7M through the Reaching Home program to support the work of the Affordable Housing Association of Nova Scotia (AHANS) in preventing and reducing homelessness here in HRM. From providing roofs over people’s heads, to on the ground support—AHANS and the organizations they work with know how to support those most vulnerable in our communities.
$5.3M through the Unsheltered Homelessness and Encampments Initiative. We signed an agreement with the Government of Nova Scotia, and they will match this funding dollar for dollar.
This funding will expand outreach services, stabilize shelter capacity, and strengthen collaboration to ensure no one falls through the cracks.
Thank you to AHANS and all of the organizations out there who work day in and day out to help those most vulnerable in our communities.
Thanks to my colleague MP Lena Metlege Diab for her advocacy and for joining me to make this important announcement for our communities today!
