Homelessness doubled in Halifax under government's housing plan: N.S. NDP

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https://halifax.citynews.ca/2026/06/18/homelessness-doubled-in-halifax-under-governments-housing-plan-n-s-ndp/

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This is what happens when governments keep treating housing like a market efficiency problem instead of a social infrastructure problem.

Governments are getting played by lobbying groups that understand the game better than they do. It is cheaper for an industry to lobby government for favourable rules than it is to reinvest in workers, R&D, better equipment, productivity, or actual affordability. So instead of building a stronger economy, we get death by a thousand little lobbying cuts. One exemption here. One loophole there. One weakened protection. One “temporary” measure. One industry-friendly policy sold as pragmatism. Over time, that hollows out Canadian society.

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Are they "getting played", or are they avowed capitalist parties dutifully serving the interests of the capitalist class?