Ndp Housing

• Election fact-check: How much new housing does Canada actually need?

  Parties' big promises on new housing aren't so big, data suggests.

  Money

  Sep 3, 2021
  
• British Columbians now form biggest bloc of speculation taxpayers

  B.C. Premier John Horgan says the tax has been "successful," despite new data that shows British Columbians now form the largest bloc of people paying it.

  Jan 15, 2021
  
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• Singh promises $5,000 rent subsidy to up to 500,000 families if elected

  The NDP says the rental benefit would cost the federal treasury $1.35 billion per year and another $450 million from the provinces beginning next year.

  Canada

  Sep 26, 2019
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• NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh proposes new housing measures

  NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is outlining how his party would bring home ownership into reach for more young Canadians.

  Politics

  Feb 20, 2019
• Work begins on 200 new units of social housing in Vancouver’s DTES

  The project is being built on city land, with funding from the provincial and federal governments.

  Canada

  Jan 22, 2019
• Protesters gather in Vancouver to bash ‘predatory’ school tax on $3M homes

  "It's not just happening to people with $3 million homes, it's going to happen to all of the other ones as well. A tax grab is a tax grab," said one speaker.

  May 1, 2018
• What’s in the BC NDP’s $6B plan to fix the housing market?

  We finally know the details of the NDP's hotly anticipated comprehensive housing strategy.

  Canada

  Feb 20, 2018
• B.C. government considers extending foreign buyers tax beyond Metro Vancouver: premier

  "We don't want to solve a problem in one area and have it emerge in another. And that means, I think, a province-wide approach to this."

  Politics

  Nov 16, 2017
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• Details still scarce on BC NDP’s housing affordability plan

  B.C.'s finance minister says tax changes to address housing affordability will stay under wraps until the February budget.

  Politics

  Nov 1, 2017