Keely Corrigan was the last tenant to move out of a building on Mitchell St. In North End Dartmouth before renovations started.
All the tenants in a nine-unit building in Dartmouth recently moved out as their fixed-term leases ended. One is now paying more than double for a new apartment and worries that low-income renters will have nowhere to turn as affordable units disappear.Keely Corrigan was the last tenant to move out of an apartment building on Mitchell Street in Dartmouth's north end before renovations started.
"It's a kind of form of gentrification," said Mark Culligan, a community legal worker with Dalhousie Legal Aid in Halifax. "New landlord comes in, buys a building, everyone's on a fixed-term lease and they just don't renew it, do some repairs, rent it out." She eventually found a new unit for more than double her previous rent. At $1,525 monthly plus utilities, it's a price she knows she can't afford.Matthew Hayes, a sociology professor at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, N.B., said between the 2016 and the 2021 census, Halifax lost 8,140 housing units priced below $1,000 a month. This is a 25 per cent reduction in the stock.
Ben Wilson had been hoping to stay in his rental unit, but couldn't afford the higher price the landlord was offering.
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