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Newsletter November 2025
This November, we’re sharing updates on our Turkey Hamper & Toy Drive, the latest from our Home Repair Program, upcoming events, staffing news, and a special feature celebrating Curtis Whiley’s recognition at Saint Mary’s University.

Land trust unites community, secures future for African Nova Scotians
Sixth-generation African Nova Scotian Curtis Whiley is helping to write a new chapter for the Upper Hammonds Plains Community. “It is a wild story.” Curtis

Land trust in N.S. secures $61.2M to build housing for Black Canadians
The federal government announced $61.2 million for the Upper Hammonds Plains Community Land Trust on Saturday. The funding will be used to build 136 co-op

How Black-led community land trusts are connecting Black communities with lost land across Canada
With their collective ownership model, community land trusts have the opportunity to work with provincial and federal governments to provide affordable housing and community hubs

Reviving heritage and affordable housing: The UHPCLT community land trust project
To combat further erosion of the affordable housing stock, Upper Hammonds Plains Community Land Trust UHPCLT, has set out to demonstrate how to create an affordable housing-focused,

In Halifax, Truro, Upper Hammonds Plains, community land trusts offer a way for residents to build neighbourhoods, legacy
An old idea is finding its way to Nova Scotia that may help preserve plots of land where communities can build affordable housing. The United

Upper Hammonds Plains welcomes new co-operative housing development
The federal government announced the development of 136 new affordable housing units in Upper Hammonds Plains Saturday. The project, known as the Upper Hammonds Plains

Federal government announces first projects funded under new Co-operative Housing Development Program
The federal government announced the first co-operative housing projects to receive funding under the new Co-operative Housing Development Program (CHDP), a $1.5 billion initiative designed

New housing co-op in Upper Hammonds Plains bringing 136 affordable units
A new housing co-op in Upper Hammonds Plains will see 136 new affordable homes built over the next year and a half. Article content A

Transforming the Landscape of African Nova Scotian communities
The Upper Hammonds Plains Community Land Trust (UHPCLT) exemplifies community-led advocacy and community-developed solutions to longstanding systemic issues in African Nova Scotian communities, yielding positive

Community Land Trusts offer a way for residents to build neighbourhoods, legacy
“Through the work of land trust, we’ve really been able to mobilize a broader community conversation, which needed to be had in terms of us

Historically Black community strives to keep land as Halifax’s housing market booms
With the Halifax housing market showing no sign of slowing down and commercial development continuing to push into suburbs, longtime residents of Upper Hammonds Plains

Nova Scotia’s hot housing market puts pressure on a historically Black community
Residents of a Black Nova Scotian community outside Halifax feel their community is losing its character due to a hot housing market and increased development.


