The signs are impossible to ignore: online pleas for rentals, sparse shelves at food banks, tents crammed on public squares.
In 2023, rents in Nova Scotia rose faster than anywhere in Canada, vacancy rates remained low and homelessness ballooned. Housing was the biggest story of the year.
“We’re all one paycheque or one crisis away from being homeless ourselves,” said Allison Rouillard in November, discussing her eviction and subsequent decision to move into an RV even as winter approached.
While the housing crisis is a national problem decades in the making, it is particularly acute in Nova Scotia, which is now short tens of
