By Lyndsay Armstrong
The events’ reactions come after the federal government launched a $300,000 report earlier this week that laid out how such a unit would work.
Halifax agency Davis Pier Consulting was mandated by the federal government in 2022 to review how an enforcement unit may handle disputes extra effectively, and the corporate delivered its report greater than a 12 months in the past.
Colton LeBlanc, minister of Service Nova Scotia, stated that upon reviewing the report the federal government determined such an enforcement unit would end in extra crimson tape and longer dispute decision instances for each landlords and tenants.
“We took that report, we checked out different jurisdictions which have a compliance enforcement unit … we decided these outcomes wouldn’t be desired for Nova Scotians,” LeBlanc stated throughout query interval Thursday.
Presently, enforcement of rulings from tenancy hearings is preformed by way of the province’s sheriff companies.
Opposition Liberal Chief Zach Churchill stated in an interview it’s baffling the province just isn’t continuing with an enforcement unit that each tenants and landlords have known as for.
“There’s apparent the reason why that is essential. We’ve bought close to zero emptiness charges. We’ve bought a premier that’s doubling the inhabitants once we don’t have sufficient homes. Housing disputes are on the rise between tenants and landlords. We’re seeing document numbers of evictions,” Churchill stated, including the report appeared to point that such models would supply elevated protections to each rental events.
NDP Chief Claudia Chender stated she finds it “beautiful” that a few 12 months in the past the province seemed to be transferring ahead with tenancy enforcement solely to determine to scrap the plan. A compliance unit may assist defend renters from landlords who’re behaving illegally, she added.
“Our query now’s who’s within the premier’s ear telling him not to do that? How did this modification? As a result of it stays clear that each tenants and landlord organizations need this enforcement unit,” Chender stated, talking at a housing rally in Halifax Thursday morning.
This report by The Canadian Press was first printed Sept. 12, 2024.
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