NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is promising to increase housing supply by freeing up Crown land for rent-controlled units.
An NDP government would use suitable federal land to develop more than 100,000 rent-controlled homes within the next decade, Singh said during a March 24 campaign stop in Montreal.
He also pledged $1 billion over the next five years to secure additional public land for the development of rent-controlled housing.
“When we see federal land, we want to use all of it, 100 percent of the federal land that is usable to build homes that are affordable, homes that are non-market housing,” Singh said while standing on public land in Quebec’s largest city. He said the site has been shovel-ready since the last election in 2021….