Nova Scotia Buys Motel to Help Ease Housing Shortages Faced by Health-Care Workers

Nova Scotia Buys Motel to Help Ease Housing Shortages Faced by Health-Care Workers
Nova Scotia Health Minister Michelle Thompson fields a question at a COVID-19 briefing in Halifax on Sept. 29, 2021. The Canadian Press/Andrew Vaughan
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The Nova Scotia government has purchased a motel to house health-care workers recruited to work on the province’s South Shore.

The move is meant to help alleviate housing shortages and will see the province convert the former Wheelhouse Motel, in Lunenburg, N.S., into mixed-income housing.