Social housing inclusion: a confusing rule?
Le Devoir pursues its theme of the law concerning social and affordable housing units in new construction projects. Although city housing czar Robert Beaudry speaks hopefully it’s clear that not much progress has been made on this issue.
Cadichon 13:24 on 2021-10-14 Permalink
While Coderre brags about his awesome negotiation skills, it’s worth pointing out that while he was in office, Couillard was doing massive cuts in housing programs, something he wasn’t able to stop or reverse. Afterward he succeeded in negotiating a “métropole” status for Montréal, which gave Montréal some new powers in housing… but no new money, resulting in the situation described in the article, where Montréal buys land directly or through its by-law, but lacks funding to build anything.