Brian Dauphinee is being renovicted from his $637-a-month Halifax studio apartment at the end of August, and is about to anxiously wade into the city’s increasingly expensive rental market.
But the 69-year-old, who lives on a pension, will do so without the help of a rent supplement. He’s one of hundreds of people who have been denied financial aid in recent months under a change made to the joint provincial-federal program.
“I was holding on hope that something might come through, and it certainly didn’t. So they wasted my time,” Dauphinee said. “And then all of the rents in the area here
