The Liberal government has faced increasing scrutiny in recent weeks over housing issues, as a tent city sprang up across the street from Confederation Building and the premier acknowledged an “acute crisis.”
A litany of health and safety concerns have been flagged to the Newfoundland and Labrador Housing Corporation about for-profit shelters over the last year.
Hours before MHAs re-convened in the legislature for the fall session, the Newfoundland and Labrador government rolled out new measures aimed at tackling what Premier Andrew Furey described as an “acute crisis” in housing.
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Associate professor Daniel Kudla says encampments like one in St. John's have been set up in many of Canada's big cities, including Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver, and as the cost of living has ratcheted up, they're emerging in mid-sized and smaller cities.