NSNDP

July 22nd, 2025

Thousands of affordable housing units required to meet the need: NDP

HALIFAX– Today, NDP MLA Suzy Hansen made this statement:

“While every home helps, we remain deeply concerned about the severe lack of affordable homes for Nova Scotians to rent or buy.
The Houston government is falling further and further behind the number of housing units needed; they have to pick up the pace. According to the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, Nova Scotia is short 12,000 new affordable housing units each year– but the government isn’t even meeting half of that. The result is skyrocketing rent and more and more families struggling to find and keep affordable housing with no light at the end of the tunnel. This government needs to build more units that working families can live in instead of relying on developers to fix the lack of supply.
If the government is going to get serious about tackling the housing crisis they need to act with more urgency. That starts with having a minister of housing whose entire job is tackling the lack of apartments and homes that Nova Scotians can actually afford. Instead of making it easier to evict tenants, the government needs to protect renters by limiting the use of fixed term leases and creating residential tenancy enforcement.
Some positive announcements sprinkled across the province are not going to fix Nova Scotia’s worsening housing issues. People need a government with the will to act now.”

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