Party Leaders Reply to RHPNS Survey Questions
RHPNS sent six questions to party leaders, listed below, requesting their party’s positions on each.
- What will your party do to reverse the damage inflicted by Nova Scotia’s rent control regime on rental property owners and tenants?
- What will your party do to protect the benefits that fixed term leases offer to those most in need of affordable housing?
- Will your party support redirecting the $3 million in funds that would have been allocated to create and maintain a compliance and enforcement to hiring more Residential Tenancy Officers in the Residential Tenancies program to improve the administration and delivery of the program?
- To make rental units more affordable for tenants, will you either eliminate the CAP or extend it to include rental properties so that they pay the same stable tax rates as single-family residential homeowners?
- Will you help tenants and rental housing providers resolve non-payment of rent by creating an Emergency Rent Bank?
- What steps will your party take to engage in more responsible, constructive dialogue related to rental housing issues to reduce the risk to rental housing providers and protect their right to operate in a safe workplace?
All the three parties responded to our request. For additional context on each question and the leaders’ responses, click on RHPNS Party Leaders’ Questions 2024.