In 2011, Jodi Brown got sick and she ended up leaving her job as an aircraft maintenance planner and landed on social assistance and in public housing. And it was from there that she became an anti-poverty advocate for people who needed support. She is someone who has a lived experience in finding suitable housing and surviving on a limited budget with limited income. This week, Nova Scotia's Auditor General weighed in on the state of public housing management in the province. And we learned the government is responsible for 11-thousand residences and there are six thousand people on a waiting list. Housing Minister John Lohr this week announced government was accepting all twenty recommendations in the report and would be establishing a new governance model. One that will provide independent oversight and governance for public housing as recommended by the Nova Scotia Affordable Housing Commission. And Jodi Brown is offering to be a part of that model. This is her story.
