N.S. Liberals promise rent bank to voters [Video]

As Nova Scotia’s election campaign approaches the midway point, the Liberals are rolling out details of their plan to support renters.

Party leader Zach Churchill held a news conference today in Halifax, where he promised to improve rent controls and close loopholes in the province’s regulations for fixed-term leases.

The Liberal plan also calls for establishing a provincial rent bank that would provide zero-interest loans to renters who can’t pay their bills.

Churchill says the bank would be modelled after British Columbia’s rent bank, which started as a pilot project in 2019.

As well, Churchill says if the Liberals are elected to govern on Nov. 26, they would establish a residential tenancies enforcement unit and reverse the Tory government’s cuts to the rental supplement for those who pay more than 40 per cent of their pre-tax income on rent.

Elsewhere on the campaign trail, NDP Leader Claudia Chender announced that …