{"id":61151,"date":"2025-12-20T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=61151"},"modified":"2025-12-20T08:30:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T12:30:00","slug":"rental-housing-providers-n-s-issues-statement-on-halifax-water-rate-shock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=61151","title":{"rendered":"Rental Housing Providers N.S. issues statement on Halifax Water rate shock"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56506&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>HALIFAX: <\/strong>Rental Housing Providers Nova Scotia Executive Director Kevin Russell issued the following statement about today\u2019s decision by the Nova Scotia Regulatory and Appeals Board:<br><br>\u201cMake no mistake &#8211; today\u2019s decision by the Nova Scotia Regulatory and Appeals Board means that Halifax Water customers will still be paying through the nose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhile we welcome the decision by the regulator to reduce Halifax Water\u2019s proposed April 1 increase from more than 17% to 7%, the January 1 increase has been approved in principle, which means a significant double digit rate increase is still coming for 2026. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Halifax Water customers still don\u2019t know how much a rate shock they\u2019re going to have to pay on New Year\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56179&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Russell continued:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cRental Housing Providers Nova Scotia proposed a more realistic approach &#8211; 5% a year for each of the next five years. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Unfortunately, Halifax Water refused to work with us on this proposal.<br><br>\u201cWith Halifax Water now admitting financial irregularities within the organization, we urge Premier Tim Houston and Mayor Andy Fillmore to meet as soon as possible to develop an action plan to fix Halifax Water.<br><br>\u201cWe need Halifax Water\u2019s owner &#8211; the municipality &#8211; and Halifax Water\u2019s legal authority &#8211; the provincial government &#8211; to intervene and protect customers from this New Year\u2019s Day rate shock.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56530&#8243;]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HALIFAX: Rental Housing Providers Nova Scotia Executive Director Kevin Russell issued the following statement about today\u2019s decision by the Nova Scotia Regulatory and Appeals Board: \u201cMake no mistake &#8211; today\u2019s decision by the Nova Scotia Regulatory and Appeals Board means that Halifax Water customers will still be paying through the nose. \u201cWhile we welcome the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[957],"tags":[50,45,121,4693,8542,48,2517,9945],"class_list":["post-61151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-halifax","tag-halifax-water","tag-hrm","tag-kevin-russell","tag-mayor-andy-fillmore","tag-n-s","tag-premier-tim-houston","tag-rental-housing-providers-n-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}