NDL leader speaks on party platform [Video]

Nova Scotia New Democratic Party Leader Claudia Chender says, if elected in the upcoming provincial election, her first act as premier would be to ensure housing is on the agenda.

“I think this is a place where this government has just fallen down. We have people being priced out of their homes every single day, we have no vacancy, we’re not building fast enough and we’re not building things that people can actually afford,” said Chender during an interview with CTV Atlantic’s Todd Battis on Tuesday.

Housing

As part of the NDP’s election platform, Chender is promising to build 30,000 new affordable rental homes by 2028.

“We’ve seen all the same studies that the government has seen and that all the other members have seen, and so we need more like 70,000 to 80,000 units,” she said.

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