Previous Liberal and NDP governments are to blame for Nova Scotia’s housing crisis, Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Houston said Wednesday on the campaign trail, boasting that his party’s plan to build more homes is bearing fruit.
At a Halifax warehouse the Tories turned into their campaign headquarters, Houston, who is running for a second term as premier, said his government has supported thousands of new housing builds.
“We’re building more, we’re building faster … we have a plan that is working,” he told reporters, as housing affordability has become one of the main themes of the Nov. 26 election.
Nova Scotia is in a housing crisis because previous governments have failed to build enough homes, he said. “I wish these units were built five years ago, 10 years ago, 12 years ago. But they weren’t and we’re trying to catch up.”
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Before Houston’s Tories took office in 2021, Nova Scotia …