Global News at 6 Halifax: June 23

As inflation and interest rates continue to rise, there’s lots of talk about a cooling housing market, but an RBC report has found that Canadian home buyers are still facing the least affordable market in a generation. Halifax’s market is showing some signs of leveling out, but even as price increases slow, it doesn’t mean things are becoming more affordable. Alicia Draus has more. The results of a scathing new report on the state of government-owned public housing down’t surprise tenants who live there. Affordable housing advocates say a rapid response from the Nova Scotia government is needed. Alexa MacLean reports.

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