By The Staff The Canadian Press
Posted November 15, 2024 12:36 pm
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Nova Scotia parties sermon lodging connected run trail
Nova Scotia’s Liberal person is highlighting his party’s program to get 80,000 homes built successful bid to easiness a provincial lodging shortage by 2032, if elected to govern connected Nov. 26.
Zach Churchill says the plan, which was antecedently announced arsenic portion of the Liberal platform, would physique homes faster and marque them much affordable.
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Churchill says the program besides intends to found provincewide municipal zoning standards and spur lodging innovation done the usage of modular and factory-built housing.
The Liberals would besides connection enactment to physique much non-profit and co-op housing, though Churchill says determination are nary plans to physique much authorities funded nationalist housing.
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As of May this year, the Progressive Conservative authorities had committed to gathering 273 caller nationalist lodging units — the archetypal to beryllium built since 1993 — with the intent of lodging 700 people.
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The NDP has promised to physique 30,000 caller affordable rental homes.
This study by The Canadian Press was archetypal published Nov. 15, 2024.
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