Terri Smith-Fraser shut the door of the apartment she had lived in for eight years. She wiped her eyes. And told herself it was going to be okay.
Ms. Smith-Fraser, a nursing assistant, was renovicted from her Halifax apartment last spring. Her landlords, spurred by a red hot real estate market during the pandemic, sold the brick shoebox-style building in Spryfield, a suburb of the city previously known to be affordable. The cost of rent for her two-bedroom apartment more than doubled – too much for Ms. Smith-Fraser to afford on her salary of $49,000.
