N.S. renoviction ban likely ending with COVID-19 restrictions next month
Minister says protections in place for renters, but NDP leader expresses concern
With Nova Scotia’s ban on so-called renovictions likely coming to an end next month, the minister responsible for the Residential Tenancies Act offered reassurance Thursday that protections are in place for renters going forward.
Colton LeBlanc, the province’s minister of Service Nova Scotia and Internal Service, said changes made last October will offer more protections to tenants against renovictions — a situation where a landlord forces residents to leave a building so it can be renovated and rents then substantially increased.
“There is a legislative process in place that provides compensation to tenants that are being evicted, as well for tenants in circumstances where their landlord violates the process,” LeBlanc said. … [Read More]