HALIFAX — Nova Scotia’s Liberal and NDP leaders highlighted platform pledges related to housing and support for small businesses Friday, as Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Houston campaigned outside of Halifax.
During an announcement at party headquarters in Halifax, Zach Churchill confirmed that the Liberals' plan to get 80,000 homes built in order to ease a provincial housing shortage by 2032 would not include the construction of more public housing.
As of May this year, the Progressive Conservative government had committed to building 273 new public housing units — the first to be built since 1993 — with the intent of housing 700 people. Churchill said a Liberal government would establish provincewide municipal zoning standards and spur housing innovation through the use of modular and factory-built housing. It would also offer $37.5 million a year to build more non-profit housing and $20 million over four years to build and support co-operative housing.
The NDP meanwhile, has promised to build 30,000 new affordable rental homes as part of a plan that will also expand public housing stock by giving priority to the use of prefabricated housing.
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