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Nova Scotia Liberals highlight housing plan to build 80,000 homes by 2032

November 15, 2024 No Comments

Nova Scotia’s Liberal leader is highlighting his party’s plan to get 80,000 homes built in order to ease a provincial housing shortage by 2032, if elected to govern on Nov. 26.

Nova Scotia NDP releases election platform focused on affordability, housing, health

November 13, 2024 No Comments

Promises to build 30,000 affordable rental homes, make Halifax ferries free and temporarily remove the provincial tax on gasoline were centrepieces of the Nova Scotia NDP election platform released Wednesday.

A sign advocating for support for the homeless is seen through a fenced-in homeless encampment in Victoria Park in Halifax's downtown on March 4, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darren Calabrese Nova Scotia election promises

Affordability or bust: Nova Scotia election campaign all about cost of living

November 10, 2024 No Comments

A lot has changed in Nova Scotia since the Progressive Conservatives won a dominant electoral majority in the 2021 election with a targeted focus on health care.

Progressive Conservative leader Tim Houston

Housing expected to be top issue among major parties on N.S. campaign trail today

November 4, 2024 No Comments

Housing seems set to be the top issue among major parties on the Nova Scotia campaign trail today.

N.S. election: NDP promises to end fixed-term leases, impose rent-control system

November 1, 2024 No Comments

Nova Scotia’s temporary rent cap and a loophole that allows landlords to avoid it were the targets of the provincial New Democrats on Thursday, as they promised to protect tenants from evictions and excessive hikes if elected Nov. 26.

About half of the 7,000 Nova Scotians waiting for public housing are seniors

October 6, 2024 No Comments

About half of the 7,020 households on Nova Scotia’s wait-list for public housing are composed of seniors, the deputy minister of housing said Wednesday, a number the opposition said should make the government feel ashamed.

Nova Scotia NDP accuse government of prioritizing landlord profits over renters

September 18, 2024 No Comments

Nova Scotia’s NDP are accusing the government of prioritizing landlords over residents who need an affordable place to live, as the opposition party tables a bill aimed at addressing the housing crisis.

Minister of Services Nova Scotia Colton LeBlanc

Despite outcry from opposition, N.S. Tories resist tenancy enforcement unit

September 12, 2024 No Comments

Nova Scotia’s opposition parties say they can’t understand why the government insists the province doesn’t need an enforcement unit to help settle disputes between landlords and tenants.

N.S. rent cap extension futile due to ‘massive loophole’ in rental system: advocates

September 9, 2024 No Comments

A loophole in Nova Scotia’s rental housing rules is making the provincial government’s proposed rent cap extension essentially useless, housing advocates and opposition parties say.

Nova Scotia proposes two-year extension to five-per-cent rent cap until end of 2027

September 7, 2024 No Comments

The Nova Scotia government wants to extend its five per cent cap on rent increases another two years, but the province won’t create an enforcement unit to bolster its tenancy rules and regulations.

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