Montreal Housing

• Montreal unveils new plan for 20,000 housing units

  Montreal, Quebec and Ottawa will each pitch in $2 million for technical studies on the 95 hectares of land, part of which used to host the Hippodrome.

  Canada

  Apr 19
  
• Montreal to get hundreds of new affordable housing units for families, homeless youth

  The 12 projects approved in a call for tenders will cost about $310 million. They include hundreds of dwellings for a variety of people, including families and seniors.

  Canada

  Apr 12
  
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• ‘I’ve been through hell’: Quebec woman and her desperate attempt to find social housing

  Anne Marie Jobin of the Montreal area has lived a difficult life, and is having trouble meeting her own basic needs as her health declines. She hasn't been able to find help.

  Politics

  Nov 10, 2023
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• Cadillac Fairview shifts Montreal development project to rentals from office space

  The developer says that 750 Peel, part of its much larger redevelopment in the city's core, will have 510 rental units with a 2026 completion date.

  Canada

  Nov 6, 2023
• Montreal university student says he’s out $700 due to a fraudulent landlord

  Longueuil police issued a warning to the public last month not to fall victim to listings from landlord imposters. One student in Montreal is telling his story.

  Canada

  Sep 6, 2023
• 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
• Landlord pressuring them to leave, live in poor conditions, Montreal tenants argue

  The tenants say the landlord of the Grand Boulevard apartment complex is purposefully neglecting the building and avoiding repairs in order to get them to move out.

  Canada

  Aug 19, 2023
• Montreal Chinatown residents, merchants alarmed by increasing drug use in neighbourhood

  Residents and business owners of yet another Montreal neighbourhood are raising concerns about an explosion of drug use on the streets.

  Canada

  Jul 26, 2023
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• Pierrefonds-Roxboro redevelopment project near future REM station blocked by 26 residents

  Those living near the site who spoke with Global News say one of their main concerns was an increase in traffic and congestion in the area.

  Canada

  Jul 11, 2023
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• City of Montreal swoops in to protect rooming house from sale to private buyer

  The building, newly acquired by the city, is a seven-unit rooming house on Centre Street in Pointe-Saint-Charles where vulnerable tenants are paying low rents.

  Politics

  Jul 10, 2023