On this week’s show: The House is in Halifax to dig into the issue of housing affordability, which is reaching crisis levels in the Nova Scotia capital.
People from every side of the issue — buyers, realtors, builders — talk about their concerns with the red-hot market. Plus — provincial Housing Minister John Lohr, NS NDP housing critic Suzy Hansen and federal Housing Minister Ahmed Hussen each discuss how they think politicians can help.One couple who is searching for a house of their own is having little luck in a red-hot Halifax housing market, an example of the nationwide affordability crisis.
in the country, come to be? Housing policy expert Ren Thomas of Dalhousie University weighs in, as well as Nova Scotia Housing Minister John Lohr. Federal Housing Minister Ahmed Hussen also describes how he thinks the federal government can help. Plus, a homebuilder talks about the challenges companies like his face in actually building more housing supply.Housing policy expert Ren Thomas of Dalhousie University discusses how housing became so unaffordable.
, as soon as the ban ended, she and her two sons once again faced the threat of being forced from their rental home.about her experience, and provincial NDP MLA and housing critic Suzy Hansen discusses how her party proposes to solve the problem of unaffordable housing.After a ban on “renovictions” expired in Nova Scotia, some, including Adele Martell, faced the prospect of being forced from their rental homes.
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