Applications
Click here to learn more about applying and our requirements.
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
Our four-unit building began welcoming tenants in March 2017. Phase 2 of Riverside Estates opened in October 2018 with an additional 10 one and two-bedroom units. in which it is located.
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.
Building Updates & Fundraisers
Media & Press
Arisaig community dance supports AAHS
The community of Arisaig has shown its support for the Antigonish Affordable Housing Society (AAHS) with a generous donation of $700 towards the Society’s Housing for Hope capital campaign. The funds were raised at the community’s annual fundraising dance spearheaded...
read more
Official opening a success!
The Antigonish Affordable Housing Society (AAHS) hosted tenants, community members, as well as local, provincial and federal politicians, on Saturday, October 20, to celebrate the official opening of Phase 2 of Riverside Estates, its multi-family complex on Hope Lane....
read more
Christmas gifts for all ages
If you’re looking for Christmas gift ideas, the Antigonish Affordable Housing Society (AAHS) has a couple of suggestions. The Society will present an evening of music and song at the Bauer Theatre on December 20th and 21st. Home for Christmas: An Evening of Christmas...
read more
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.”
read more