Serving Halifax Regional Municipality & surrounding Nova Scotia communities since 2009.

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Facing eviction, or nowhere to stay tonight? Call 555-555-5555, 8 am to 9 pm, seven days a week. Free, no referral needed.

A Halifax housing charity since 2009.

Three Halifax social workers founded Threshold Housing Society in 2009. Today 18 staff run the emergency line, the rent bank, housing navigation, and 24 transitional housing units, all free, from our office at 1425 Hollis Street.

How we started

Threshold Housing Society was incorporated in 2009 after three Halifax social workers raised seed funding from local faith communities and the United Way. In our first year, working out of a borrowed office on Agricola Street, we helped 42 households.

By 2012 we had our first provincial housing contract, our first full-time staff, and an eight-unit transitional housing property on Gottingen Street. The rent bank launched in 2014 with a $175,000 provincial commitment.

Today we have 18 staff, a budget of $2.3 million, and 24 transitional units across four properties on Gottingen, Alderney, Windmill, and Robie. The Wednesday drop-in at Dartmouth North Community Centre brings the same help to the other side of the harbour.

Mission, vision, and values

Mission
To prevent homelessness and keep individuals and families in Halifax-Dartmouth stably housed, through direct service and advocacy, with no barriers to asking for help.
Vision
A Halifax Regional Municipality where every person has safe, affordable housing they can keep, and where the systems around housing help the people who need them most.
Values
  • Dignity. Nobody is asked to justify how they got here, and nothing they tell us is used against them.
  • Urgency. A housing worker talks with you the day you call, and most people have a plan within 48 hours.
  • Equity. No referral, no ID, no income test, and no citizenship requirement.
  • Evidence. We track outcomes for every household and publish them in our annual report.

In 2025

Households housed or stabilized
340
Rental assistance since 2009
$2.1 million
Still housed at 12 months
89 per cent

Our annual report has the full accounting of our finances and program outcomes. Request the 2025 annual report.

Our staff

We have 18 staff. You are most likely to meet one of these six people first.

  • Portrait of Sandra MacLeod, smiling in a striped blazer

    Sandra MacLeod

    Executive Director

    Has led Threshold since 2015 and sits on the HRM Affordable Housing Advisory Committee.

  • Portrait of Kwame Asante, in a white T-shirt

    Kwame Asante

    Director of Housing Programs

    Oversees every service we run. Joined from Nova Scotia Housing in 2019.

  • Portrait of Joanne Thibodeau, seated in a leather chair

    Joanne Thibodeau

    Director of Finance and Operations

    A CPA who manages our budget and government reporting. Joined in 2017.

  • Marcus Webb

    Emergency Housing Coordinator

    Coordinates every emergency placement and our partner network across HRM.

  • Portrait of Priya Nair, in a pink sweatshirt

    Priya Nair

    Senior Case Manager, Transitional Housing

    Leads case management at our Gottingen and Alderney properties, in English, French, and Tamil.

  • Portrait of Danielle Roy, against a yellow backdrop

    Danielle Roy

    Housing Navigator

    Helps households search the private rental market and the Nova Scotia Housing waitlist.

Board of directors

Our volunteer board sets Threshold Housing's direction and holds us to account.

  • Robert Gallant, Chair. Partner, Gallant & Associates Law, Halifax.
  • Lydia Brennan, Vice-Chair. Associate Professor of Social Work, Dalhousie University.
  • Thomas Fearon, Treasurer. CPA and former credit union CFO.
  • Aimée Chiasson, Secretary. Community Development Specialist, Halifax Regional Municipality.
  • Martin Okafor, Director. Psychiatrist, Nova Scotia Health.
  • Marlene Boutilier, Director. Retired school principal, Dartmouth.

Funders and partners

These organizations provide our core funding.

  • Province of Nova Scotia, Department of Community Services
  • Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
  • United Way Halifax
  • Halifax Regional Municipality
  • Invest Nova Scotia
  • RBC Foundation
  • McConnell Foundation
  • Northwood Foundation

Hundreds of individual donors give each year. Join them.

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