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Housing & Homelessness

Home construction and supply platforms

Here's what the 2024 Nova Scotia election parties are promising.
We don't have any PC policies on Home construction and supply.

Liberal
  • Set a goal to build 80K new homes by 2032

    "Set a goal of building 80,000 new homes by 2032 to eliminate the housing shortfall, aiming for a rate of 11,000 new homes per year—enough to accommodate Nova Scotia’s growth" — Better Deal for Nova Scotians, retrieved 2024-11-09

  • Establish increased minimum density standards

    "Establish increased minimum density standards across our province that take into account proximity to transportation and services" — Better Deal for Nova Scotians, retrieved 2024-11-09

  • Set zoning to encourage density near universities

    "Ensure appropriate zoning to encourage density near our province’s universities so students have a place to live" — Better Deal for Nova Scotians, retrieved 2024-11-09

  • Remove all restrictive covenants or exclusionary zoning that prevents housing from being built
  • Set province-wide minimum zoning standards
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  • Update the municipal funding formula to incentivise housing starts
  • Invest in new ways of building housing

    "A Nova Scotia Liberal government will work to accelerate the homebuilding innovation happening here in Nova Scotia. We’ll invest in new ways of building, like tilt-up construction, modular housing, mass timber, factory built housing, and other innovations that will enable our province to build more homes, reduce prices, and improve our province’s climate resilience." — Better Deal for Nova Scotians, retrieved 2024-11-09

    "The current government is playing favourites by choosing where new homes can go. We can’t afford that. We need a rules-based system across the province that will encourage new housing. A Nova Scotia Liberal government will modernize housing legislation to encourage broader and more innovative housing solutions." — Better Deal for Nova Scotians, retrieved 2024-11-09

  • Streamline construction of condo developments and encourage condos with mixed ownership and rental units
    1. "Streamline construction of condo developments,
    2. Encourage more innovative housing solutions such as building rent communities that allow for a mix of ownership and rental units within the same developments
    3. Establish a fast track approval process for developments that build rental communities."

    — Better Deal for Nova Scotians, retrieved 2024-11-09

  • Offer grants and low-cost loans to build new housing co-ops and expand existing ones
  • Allow the Community Housing Acquisition Program to fund projects that add units to co-op projects or build new buildings
  • Invest $20M more to build new co-ops and expand and repair existing ones

    "Invest $20M in additional grant funding streams to build new co-ops, expand existing co-ops, and fund co-op repairs." — Better Deal for Nova Scotians, retrieved 2024-11-09

  • Invest $10M to increase training for women at NSCC in trades directly related to housing

    "As of 2022, less than 9% of trades apprentices in Nova Scotia were women. We will never overcome our province’s labour shortage and get more housing built if we are only training half of the available workforce. A Nova Scotia Liberal government will invest $10M to increase training for women at NSCC in trades directly related to housing, with a goal to double the number of women being trained over five years. We will:

    ʘ Increase the number of spots available for women to study a trade at NSCC,

    ʘ Invest to develop programming for all ages to show young women that careers in the trades are dynamic, high-paying jobs that help our communities, and

    ʘ Expand NSCC’s Women Unlimited program, which has already helped 1,000 women explore trades and technology education and find meaningful careers."

    — Better Deal for Nova Scotians, retrieved 2024-11-09

NDP
  • Work with municipalities to identify land that can be committed to housing construction
  • Work with municipalities to speed up and standardise planning and approval timelines
  • Allow municipalities to levy a tax on vacant lots that are zoned for residential development, but where developers are delaying builds

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