Applications
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Our Community Navigator
Meet Carleton MacNeil, Riverside Estates’ Community Navigator. Carleton’s job is to work with the residents of Riverside Estates to turn the housing units into homes, and together, create a community.
Donate
If you would like to make a financial donation, you can do so online, just click to help!
Antigonish Affordable Housing Society
The mission of the Antigonish Affordable Housing Society (AAHS) is to research and develop opportunities to create sufficient affordable housing and to provide social support for the residents of its developments. In September 2016, AAHS broke ground on the first phase of Riverside Estates. Now complete, the new four-unit complex started welcoming tenants in March 2017. AAHS plans to create an additional 10 units in Phase 2 once funding has been secured.
AAHS aims to break the cycle of poverty vulnerable people find themselves in, and to improve the quality of their lives by providing access to affordable and energy-efficient housing that is socially and financially sustainable, and supported by the community in which it is located.
Building Updates
Media & Press
AAHS’s youngest champion
The Antigonish Affordable Housing Society (AAHS) has a young champion! Six-year-old Lilien Gilham set up a lemonade stand near her home on Brookside Way recently to raise funds “for people who need a place to live.”
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Applications are open!
The Antigonish Affordable Housing Society (AAHS) is now accepting applications from potential tenants living on low incomes for 10 new affordable housing units now under construction at Riverside Estates.
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Community invited to official opening!
The Antigonish Affordable Housing Society (AAHS) is inviting the community to celebrate the Official Opening of Phase 2 of Riverside Estates, its multi-family complex on Hope Lane. The opening will take place on Saturday, October 20th, from 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m....
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People’s School a success!
The aim of the People’s School was to build awareness about the current state of affordable housing in Nova Scotia, and to initiate a broader conversation about what communities can do collectively to make a real difference in the lives of people living on low incomes.
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