NDP housing promise includes new landlord limits, more help for non-profits [Video]

Federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is heading into the end of the first week of the campaign with a pledge to ban corporate landlords from buying existing affordable rental properties.

The running theme of the week has been Singh trying to differentiate the NDP from the Liberals and the Conservatives by saying he is the only leader looking out for “working people” and not “billionaires and millionaires.”

Speaking at a campaign stop outside a Toronto apartment complex Friday, Singh said Canada needs to do more to help address rising housing costs.

“We’re going to take this problem head on, and we are going to ban large corporate landlords from engaging in the predatory practice of buying up affordable homes,” Singh said.

The plan is similar to a bill the NDP proposed last year that would have restricted such sales to individuals, non-profits, municipalities, agencies and co-ops.

This is Singh’s second …