Watch the videos below and send a letter to city council asking them to stop the demolitions and allow these deeply affordable building to stay occupied during this housing crisis.

Dalhousie Legal Aid Service and ACORN are the first two names on the list when a Haligonian renter needs help. Many of the protections that keep working class families from being unjustly evicted or facing huge rent increases have come about because of the precedent-setting legal cases and tenant organizing that have come from these two vital organizations, their staff, and their volunteers.

When representatives of Dal Legal Aid and ACORN show up to speak to council, on the same day and about the same issue, someone is probably up to no good. And that’s the case on Robie St, where Halifax City Council is forcing an entire neighbourhood from their homes and demolishing around 70 units of desperately-needed deeply affordable housing. Under the $200 million plan, Council would trade affordable housing, an urban forest, and historic sites in order to add 850 meters of an extra lane to Robie St, in a section that the City’s own data shows a minimal impact. You can find out more about the plan here.

With a $200 million price tag for the project, you would think City Council would follow the normal rules of evictions and offer to help tenants with moving expenses and other costs. But that’s not what Dal Legal Aid and ACORN are hearing. Meet Sydnee Blum and Darryl King, two advocates who have been hearing from tenants on Robie St and trying to find out what City Council is hiding.

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