NDP: Rustad confirms plan to cancel 300,000 homes, bring back red tape

THE NDP said on Friday that BC Conservative Leader John Rustad has announced his plan to go back to the status quo that got BC into a housing crisis: bringing back local government bureaucracy and red tape, and cancelling 300,000 middle-income homes on the way through Premier David Eby’s Housing Action Plan.

Here’s John Rustad’s housing plan:

  1. Cancelling 300,000 middle-income homes on the way by repealing Bill 44 – bringing back red tape and bureaucracy that blocks construction (CKNW, May 16Twitter, Nov. 8, 2023)
  2. Cancelling the speculation tax and turning rental homes back into empty units (Facebook, 2020) (Facebook, 2018)
  3. Cancelling Eby’s new program to open the door to homeownership with homes at 40% below market price (Twitter, Sept 25Sept 19)
  4. Cancelling Eby’s new Airbnb rules and turning homes back into vacation rentals. (This Is Vancolour, March 1)
  5. Giving the owners of homes worth more than $3 million a tax break (Facebook, 2020)
  6. Bringing back rental bans and age restrictions in stratas (Hansard, Nov. 22, 2022)

The NDP said that Rustad launched his campaign by saying it’s not the government’s job to build housing. Previously, when asked which parts of Eby’s Housing Action Plan he would continue, Rustad said, “I would repeal all of that.” (CKNW, May 16)

“John Rustad has a 20-year record of defending the status quo on housing – and today he confirmed his plan to cancel 300,000 homes and bring back the bureaucracy and red tape that got us into this mess in the first place,” said Ravi Kahlon, BC NDP Candidate for Delta North. “Rustad’s plan will make housing more expensive, not less. John Rustad is a risk people can’t afford.”

The NDP said that Eby’s Housing Action Plan is cutting the old red tape and bureaucracy that blocks construction, and will deliver 300,000 middle-income homes for people, and open doors to homeownership so people can find a home they can afford in the communities they love.

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