{"id":7438,"date":"2024-06-07T14:33:55","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T17:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/?p=7438"},"modified":"2024-06-07T14:33:55","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T17:33:55","slug":"nova-scotia-pledges-funds-to-help-housing-insecure-in-queens-lunenburg-counties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2024\/06\/07\/nova-scotia-pledges-funds-to-help-housing-insecure-in-queens-lunenburg-counties\/","title":{"rendered":"Nova Scotia pledges funds to help housing insecure in Queens, Lunenburg counties"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7440\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7440\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7440\" src=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/ssoda-1-1024x577.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/ssoda-1-1024x577.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/ssoda-1-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/ssoda-1-1536x865.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/ssoda-1.jpg 1640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7440\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The South Shore Open Doors Association will receive $25,000 in provincial funding to help those who are housing insecure.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The South Shore Open Doors Association will receive $25,000 from the Nova Scotia government to help people in Queens and Lunenburg counties in precarious housing situations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s part of a total of $500,000 in one-time funding announced this week for community groups across the province.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cOur government continues to invest in initiatives that support vulnerable Nova Scotians,\u201d Queens MLA Kim Masland said in a news release.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThis funding is another step in assisting our residents who require safe and affordable housing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The money will be used to assist with costs such as rental arrears, overdue power bills and other expenses that could affect someone\u2019s ability to get or maintain housing, according to the release.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">People will also be directed to other supports and services to help in the long term.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The South Shore Open Doors Association will receive $25,000 from the Nova Scotia government to help people in Queens and Lunenburg counties in precarious housing situations. It\u2019s part of a total of $500,000 in one-time funding announced this week for community groups across the province.\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cOur government continues to invest in initiatives that support vulnerable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[360,2317,1442,384,31,1677,294,1694,49,2318,1035],"class_list":["post-7438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-news","category-news-posts","tag-affordable-housing","tag-homeless","tag-homelessness","tag-housing","tag-kim-masland","tag-lunenburg-county","tag-nova-scotia-government","tag-power-bills","tag-queens-county","tag-rental-arrears","tag-south-shore-open-doors-association"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7441,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7438\/revisions\/7441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}