Incumbent mayor Mike Savage released his platform on Tuesday at a press conference in Africville Park.
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The document indicates that he wants the municipality to address poverty in the HRM by supporting requirements for affordable units in new construction, support the conversion underutilized commercial space to housing and work to create a housing trust to aid community partners to build affordable options.Story continues below advertisement
Savage also commits to acknowledging the history and reality of racism and anti-Black racism in the municipality, with the header in the platform being “support Black Lives Matter.” Savage’s announcement means that two of the three mayoral candidates have now released a detailed vision of the next four years.as the fiscal conservative who would protect taxpayers from municipal largesse and celebrate “history and heritage.”Mayor Savage talks reopening and #BlackLivesMatterEdward Cornwallis
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