{"id":56767,"date":"2025-07-12T14:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T17:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=56767"},"modified":"2025-07-12T14:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T17:05:07","slug":"chender-calls-on-province-to-make-housing-affordability-a-priority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=56767","title":{"rendered":"Chender calls on province to make housing affordability a priority"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56506&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>HALIFAX:<\/strong> Official Opposition Leader Claudia Chender demanded that Premier Tim Houston finally take housing affordability seriously, restore a Department of Housing and appoint a dedicated minister to tackle Nova Scotia\u2019s worsening housing crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cRight now, it\u2019s as expensive to live in Halifax as it is to live in Toronto. Families are being priced out of their apartments and homes,&#8221; said Chender. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8221; Renters are being forced to move because of the fixed-term lease loophole, and young Nova Scotians are giving up on ever owning a home.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAnd yet, Nova Scotia doesn\u2019t even have a Department or Minister of Housing. This crisis deserves the full attention of its own minister, not to be buried within another department like it\u2019s an afterthought.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56530&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56179&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>One of Houston\u2019s first actions under his new mandate was to fold housing responsibilities into the new Department of Growth and Development, despite the clear need for a dedicated Housing Department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFixing the housing crisis requires a dedicated minister and this can\u2019t be treated as a part-time job,\u201d said Chender. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHousing is the biggest monthly expense that renters and homeowners have and Nova Scotians are being priced out at every turn. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This requires focused, dedicated leadership. We deserve to know that this crisis is being addressed with the urgency it demands.\u201d<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56501&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56514&#8243;]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HALIFAX: Official Opposition Leader Claudia Chender demanded that Premier Tim Houston finally take housing affordability seriously, restore a Department of Housing and appoint a dedicated minister to tackle Nova Scotia\u2019s worsening housing crisis. \u201cRight now, it\u2019s as expensive to live in Halifax as it is to live in Toronto. Families are being priced out of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35774,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[957],"tags":[3124,48,1378],"class_list":["post-56767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-claudia-chender","tag-n-s","tag-n-s-ndp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}