Opposition calls on N.S. government to build more affordable housing
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But NDP Leader Claudia Chender said there needs to be a more concentrated focus on building new affordable housing.
A need for more affordable options
Chender said the province needs to use the definition of affordable housing that considers rent as no more than 30 per cent of a person's monthly income. Rent supplements have been the only substantive help the Tories have offered low-income people so far for housing, she said, and even that has problems.
"As the rents go up, those supplements become harder and harder to implement," she told reporters.
"So we need thousands of [new affordable] units."
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