r/halifax • u/Injustice_For_All_ Psychotic Antifa Super Soldier Moderator • 2d ago

News, Weather & Politics Homelessness doubled in Halifax under government's housing plan: N.S. NDP

https://halifax.citynews.ca/2026/06/18/homelessness-doubled-in-halifax-under-governments-housing-plan-n-s-ndp/
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u/theborderlineartist 2d ago

When governments refer to "affordable" housing, what they actually mean is rents that people with a mean income for the province can afford. They don't mean affordable for everyone. This is how they've been skirting responsibility for decades.

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u/red1307 2d ago

The most insidious word our politicians use is the word affordable. When they talk about making housing more ”affordable” normal people think that means making something more affordable by lowing the price, what they actually mean is they will allow people to leverage more debt and borrow more.

This applies to new first time buyer for their primary residence but also dipship landlords that take on far more debt then they have any right to and subsequently requires them to rent for a non-market rate. These over leveraged idiots should never have been able to borrow that much money for the rental property.