BILL NO. 14

(as introduced)

3rd Session, 62nd General Assembly
Nova Scotia
65 Elizabeth II, 2016

Private Member's Bill

Affordable Housing Act

Lisa Roberts
Halifax Needham

First Reading: October 14, 2016

Second Reading:

Third Reading:

Be it enacted by the Governor and Assembly as follows:

1 This Act may be cited as the Affordable Housing Act.

2 In this Act,

(a) "affordable housing" means low income housing as defined in the Housing Nova Scotia Act;

(b) "benefit" includes a grant of money or land or a subsidy;

(c) "housing" means housing as defined in the Housing Nova Scotia Act;

(d) "housing authority" means a housing authority as defined in the Housing Act.

3 (1) Where, before or after the coming into force of this Act, a person, directly or indirectly, receives a benefit from Her Majesty in right of the Province, Housing Nova Scotia, a housing authority or an agency of the Government of the Province for the purpose of providing affordable housing on a parcel of land, the recipient shall provide affordable housing on the parcel of land, in accordance with any terms or conditions to which the benefit is subject, for a period of at least 15 years commencing from the day on which housing on the parcel of land becomes available for occupancy.

(2) The obligation described in subsection (1) applies to every person who holds title to the parcel of land from the day on which the benefit is conferred until the conclusion of the 15-year period described in subsection (1), regardless of whether the recipient of the benefit is the person who holds title to the parcel of land.

4 On application by the Minister of Community Services, where the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia is satisfied that a person to whom the obligation described in subsection 3(1) applies has contravened that obligation, the Court shall order the person to

(a) disgorge to Her Majesty in right of the Province an amount equal to