{"id":59656,"date":"2025-10-22T11:52:48","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T14:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=59656"},"modified":"2025-10-22T11:52:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T14:52:48","slug":"n-s-ndp-government-more-interested-in-pr-than-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=59656","title":{"rendered":"N.S. NDP: Government more interested in PR than solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From a release:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

HALIFAX: <\/strong>After almost a year with no dedicated Department or Minister of Housing, the Houston government has finally re-appointed a minister \u2013 but has yet to re-establish the department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year, Tim Houston eliminated the dedicated Department and Minister of Housing, folding those crucial responsibilities into the new Department of Growth and Development. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

New Democrats have been pushing against this harmful change ever since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nova Scotia is in the middle of a historic housing crisis and Tim Houston has only made things worse. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Since the government was elected:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • Families are spending $4,400 more each year on rent;<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Homelessness has nearly doubled in the Halifax area and almost tripled in the western area;<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • The waitlist for public housing increased by almost 40 per cent;<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Halifax became as expensive as Toronto.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    According to a Parliamentary Budget Officer\u2019s report from earlier this month, the price of homes in Halifax is 74 per cent higher than what families can afford.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \u201cIt\u2019s been almost a year without a Department or Minister of Housing and the results speak for themselves. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    “Rents keep climbing, the public housing waitlist keeps growing, and more families are losing hope of ever owning a home,\u201d said Official Opposition Housing Critic Suzy Hansen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    \u201cThe government is doing half the job by appointing a Housing Minister, but they also need to take the housing crisis seriously and make the changes Nova Scotians need,” Hansen said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    “Without a dedicated department, we won\u2019t hold our breath.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    New Democrats will push the new Housing Minister to create real rent control, protect renters, open pathways to homeownership and invest in homes Nova Scotians can actually afford.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    From a release: HALIFAX: After almost a year with no dedicated Department or Minister of Housing, the Houston government has finally re-appointed a minister \u2013 but has yet to re-establish the department. Last year, Tim Houston eliminated the dedicated Department and Minister of Housing, folding those crucial responsibilities into the new Department of Growth and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55611,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[957],"tags":[9537,2282,48,1378,2517,1210,4565,7322],"class_list":["post-59656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-housing-minister","tag-john-a-macdonald","tag-n-s","tag-n-s-ndp","tag-premier-tim-houston","tag-provincial-government","tag-renting","tag-suzy-hansen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59656","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=59656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}