I gave the following member statement in the Nova Scotia Legislature on Friday, March 1, 2024:
Madame Speaker, everyone has a right to a warm, safe, and affordable place to live. In Nova Scotia, current market rents are not affordable for very many people. Tents are not warm, especially on days like today and when the power is cut off to them, and shelters are not homes. Since news that the tenting encampments were closing in HRM -or some of them -many people who have been living in tents in Halifax have migrated to Dartmouth North. On this morning, I’m thinking of the 25-plus dwellings on Green Road and the folks who are living in them. I want to take this moment to urge the new Minister of Community Services to take immediate action to make sure that everyone in our province has appropriate and adequate housing immediately.