Community Engagement
COMMUNITY HOUSING PROGRAM
We support the work of the community-housing sector through projects, partnerships, and professional services.
UN SDGs and Affordable Housing in Nova Scotia Map
This map can be used to foster connections between and among organizations endeavouring to create affordable housing solutions in Nova Scotia. Click to view.
Build Together I and II
In partnership with the Community Housing Transformation Centre, we are working to engage with the community housing sector in Nova Scotia for a better connected and more unified community housing sector in Nova Scotia. Read More…
UN SDGs and Affordable Housing
With funding from Employment and Social Development Canada, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and Affordable Housing in Nova Scotia initiative will connect affordable housing organizations through a series of county meetings to learn more about the SDGs that relate to housing.
Supporting Housing Organizations
We support local housing organizations through facilitation, training, guidance and support as well as linking organizations with resources and information.
More coming soon…
News and Events
People’s School on Housing Needs: From Research to Action
Building on the work started last year with a people’s school on affordable housing focused on building awareness and inspiring action and a community think tank about housing needs, a recent people’s school explored ways to build the research capacity of community groups to provide evidence about local needs and support their housing goals.
People’s School on Housing Needs
The StFX Extension Department, in partnership with the Strait Richmond Housing Group, and the Antigonish Affordable Housing Society, will co-host a People’s School on Housing Needs: From Research to Action on May 11, 2019 in Port Hawkesbury.
In the news...
- Poverty at the heart of housing, healthcare woes, conference hears | Penticton Herald | November 15, 2023
- Nova Scotia Non-Profit Housing Association forms after meetings in Antigonish | Port Hawkesbury Reporter | December 5, 2022
- Nova Scotia’s community housing sector consolidates by forming a non-profit housing association | The Centre | November 21, 2022
- As housing becomes unaffordable, volunteers in places like Antigonish filling the gaps | Saltwire | September 14, 2022
- Have your say: Housing crisis consultations roll out across Guysborough County | Guysborough Journal | May 11, 2022
- Learn how your co-op can build on its strengths | Co-operative Housing Federation of Canada | May 4, 2022
- Housing Co-ops, Maritime Noon with Bob Murphy | CBC | March 15, 2022
- Public consultation on affordable housing coming in St. Mary’s | Guysborough Journal |March 9, 2022
- How 2 students uncovered Antigonish’s long-forgotten Black housing co-operative | CBC | January 5, 2022
- Why millions, land and a desire to build affordable housing may not be enough | CBC News | December 7, 2021