In 2021, Montreal passed a bylaw to push developers to include social, affordable and family housing in construction projects. It hasn't worked.
A bylaw brought in by the Plante administration in 2021 had a goal of pushing developers to include social and affordable housing in new projects, but the opposition at city hall says that has not happened even once.Projet Montréal’s
“Bylaw for a Diverse Metropolis” had the goal of forcing developers to include 20 per cent social, affordable and family housing in projects bigger than 4,800 square feet. Two years later, Hénault-Ratelle says according to the city’s own data, the legislation has failed. “Over the past two years, there’s been no affordable housing that have been built, no affordable housing in two years,” Hénault-Ratelle said.
Ensemble Montréal says it analyzed some of the city’s open data and found there were 150 agreements between the city and developers between April 2021 and May 2023, leading to the construction of 7,100 units.Not one, the party says, was an affordable housing unit. Developers just choose to pay a fine instead of following the rules. The penalties have totaled $24.5 over that time period.
Hénault-Ratelle wondered if the city was able to use the money to add to the housing offer, but Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante indicated that was not the case.Housing rights advocate Catherine Lussier thinks the fines are not harsh enough to stop developers from skirting the rules.
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