Montreal Affordable Housing

• Montreal scraps social and affordable housing bylaw, will offer city land for housing

  Former mayor Valerie Plante's bylaw required new housing builds to include fixed percentages of social, affordable and family-sized units.

  Canada

  Jan 23
  
• Montreal developers pay fines instead of building affordable housing

  In 2021, Montreal passed a bylaw to push developers to include social, affordable and family housing in construction projects. It hasn't worked.

  Politics

  Aug 21, 2023
  
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• Montreal community groups, politicians calling for more social housing

  People who live in Montreal's NDG neighbourhood are wondering why, in the middle of a housing crisis, apartment buildings like ones at 5210 to 5222 Walkley Avenue, are boarded up.

  Canada

  May 26, 2023
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• Montreal plans to build affordable housing units on old Hippodrome raceway site by 2025

  After years of promises from various governments, construction could soon begin on the site of the old Hippodrome raceway in the borough of Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce.

  Canada

  Aug 22, 2022
• Legault promises more affordable housing ahead of fall election campaign

  The leader of the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) promised today to fund 11,700 new units in the next four years if his party wins a second term on Oct. 3.

  Canada

  Aug 12, 2022
• Quebec, Canada announce $100 million to renovate Montreal affordable housing units

  Housing advocates say they welcome the news but the investment is not enough. They say the government is catching up with decades of neglect.

  Canada

  May 5, 2021
• Quebec premier under fire for off the cuff comments about Montreal rental costs

  A lowball guess at rent costs earned François Legault a label of being 'out of touch' and prompted concern over whether the government truly understand the Montreal housing crisis.

  Canada

  Apr 29, 2021
• Montreal tenants, advocates demonstrate against city’s lack of affordable housing

  Tenants' rights advocates are continuing to draw attention to what they see as crisis for low income renters.

  Canada

  Nov 10, 2020
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• Quebec, Ottawa to invest $3.7 billion in social, affordable housing

  The provincial and federal governments have announced a $3.7-billion investment for social and affordable housing in Quebec.

  Canada

  Oct 6, 2020
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• New Montreal program helps Quebec newcomers with the process of finding affordable housing

  "This project is not to have more social housing units. It's to better integrate people," said Richard Audet with FECHIMM.

  Canada

  Dec 4, 2019