{"id":9859,"date":"2026-08-08T17:04:44","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T20:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/?p=9859"},"modified":"2026-08-08T17:07:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T20:07:49","slug":"trestle-way-neighbourhood-receiving-applications9859","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2026\/08\/08\/trestle-way-neighbourhood-receiving-applications9859\/","title":{"rendered":"Trestle Way Neighbourhood Receiving Applications"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If you currently spend more than 30% of your pre-tax income for housing, you may qualify for housing\/co-op membership in the Trestle Way Neighbourhood (adjacent to Lawrence St., Amherst St., Queen St.).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Extension and the Trestle Trail.<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

The neighbourhood offers 30 units, with 70% prioritized for seniors of Queens County. The remainder are for other Queens County residents. The units are pet-friendly (with rules for both pets and people).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

What is \u2018affordable\u2019 housing?<\/b><\/span> <\/b>The Nova Scotia Housing Commission Report (2021; p19) defines \u201caffordable housing\u201d as costing less than 30% of an individual\u2019s or households\u2019 pre-tax income.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The Trestle Way Neighbourhood<\/b><\/span> as funded by: Nova Scotia Community Housing Growth Fund, Efficiency Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia Sustainable Communities Challenge Fund, Federation of Canadian Municipalities, Region of Queens<\/span> Municipality (pre-development, test pits, project management, engineering, architecture, land, access), Government of Nova Scotia (Dept. of Growth and Development) and the Government of Canada (via Canada<\/span> Mortgage and Housing Corporation\u2019s Co-Operative Housing Development Program).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Paper application forms can be obtained in Liverpool at Region of Queens Municipality office (249 White Point Rd.), Senior Safety Co-ordinator at Queens County Transit (31 Milton Rd.) or from the office of Kim Masland, MLA, at 271 Main St. Online applications can be accessed at www.qnch.ca<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you currently spend more than 30% of your pre-tax income for housing, you may qualify for housing\/co-op membership in the Trestle Way Neighbourhood (adjacent to Lawrence St., Amherst St., Queen St.). Extension and the Trestle Trail. The neighbourhood offers 30 units, with 70% prioritized for seniors of Queens County. The remainder are for other […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[3659,3807,3809,3805,31,39,241,3806,3808,49,24,3804],"class_list":["post-9859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-news","category-news-posts","tag-co-operative-housing-development-program","tag-efficiency-nova-scotia","tag-federation-of-canadian-municipalities","tag-government-of-canada","tag-kim-masland","tag-liverpool","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nova-scotia-community-housing-growth-fund","tag-nova-scotia-sustainable-communities-challenge-fund","tag-queens-county","tag-region-of-queens","tag-the-trestle-way-neighbourhood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9859","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9859"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9865,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9859\/revisions\/9865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}