nouveaux logements sociaux – Project Genesis

Opinion: Everybody needs a place to call home

PG — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 18:55:00 +0000

Montreal Gazette – March 6, 2015

(En anglais)

As members of the housing rights committee of Project Genesis, we are alarmed to hear that the AccèsLogis program, the only program building social housing in the province, might be cut this year. All over Quebec, people and organizations are urging the government to keep this program going, including the Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal.

In Quebec, housing is a basic human right in jeopardy. In Côte-des-Neiges alone, 5,060 households are allocating more than 80 per cent of their income toward rent. What is it like to pay too much of your income in rent? It means not having enough for other necessities, basic things like public transport, heating, food, telephone bills, clothing, and medical and dental care. For parents, it’s a struggle paying for school supplies or new clothes when kids grow out of old ones. Hopelessness settlet in: it’s a big cloud coming down and there is no way out. For many, physical and mental health problems ensue: depression, isolation, addiction, diabetes, heart problems, to name a few.

A balcony with a For Rent sign on an apartment building on Barclay avenue in the borough of Côte-des-Neiges in Montreal on Saturday, November 8, 2014. Dario Ayala / Montreal Gazette

Who needs social housing in « Condo Nation? » Seniors on pension, people with health problems or with disabilities, newcomers to the country, single parents, the working poor, those who are unemployed, people on welfare, and caregivers. Social housing is the solution for them. Here are the stories of two Housing Rights Committee members:

Ms. C lost her job as a translator many years ago. Getting social housing has meant feeling finally at home, safe and secure, after a series of very difficult experiences with roaches and mould-infested slums. « That’s what happens when you don’t have money in this city, you have to accept substandard housing, » she explained. For Mr. P, when he arrived in Montreal as a new immigrant, he had great dreams about what living in Canada would be like. Instead, after working for a few years, he and his wife developed severe health problems. He ended up living for 20 years in an apartment that was infested with cockroaches. His place was in a general state of disrepair. Year after year, his rent increased: in 20 years, it almost doubled, but the state of the apartment remained the same. « I would clean and clean my apartment but never feel like it’s enough. In 2014, I found social housing and it feels like heaven. I feel like 20 years later, the dream I had about Canada finally came true, » he said.

These stories are far from unique. Social housing is a long-term solution to poverty, a societal investment. Building new social housing units with AccèsLogis costs about $250 million a year, only about 0.38 per cent of the program expenses of the government last year. Recently, the Société d’habitation du Québec sponsored a study that found that for every dollar invested in social housing, $2.30 of wealth is created in the economy. Not only does social housing give us great return on investment, but for people struggling to get by at the end of the month, month after month, it can be a lifesaver.

« Home sweet home, » the saying goes. But with the Liberal government considering cutting funding to AccèsLogis, the adage rings less and less true. We need to fight for social housing and stand up for the members of our society who can’t afford dazzling condo high-rises.

Susan Fitch, Claude Hopfenblum, Kurt John, Sheetal Pathak, Nalawattage T. Pinto and Molly Tenzer are members of the Housing Rights Committee of Project Genesis.

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Groups outraged social housing project could fall through

PG — Fri, 12 Dec 2014 15:50:50 +0000

CBC News – October 6, 2014

(en anglais)

There is an outcry in Côte-des-Neiges after reports that a community housing plan could fall through.

Last week, news broke that an agreement to convert the former Hippodrome de Montréal site into affordable housing had never been signed. Community organizers are calling on Mayor Denis Coderre to intervene and respect the original agreement.

« Condos here, condos going up there — we are not a part of it, » said Leroy Wedderburn, a member of Project Genesis, one of the groups asking the mayor to commit to turning the site — once called the Blue Bonnets Raceway — into housing.

Community organizers are calling on Mayor Denis Coderre to intervene and respect the original agreement to build social housing on the former site of the Hippodrome de Montréal. (Image: CBC)

He said many in the community feel they are watching the community grow without input from residents, and elected officials are not paying attention to those who need assistance.

« [There’s] no interest for the small man and the poor people [who] need it most, » said Wedderburn.

In 2012, the city announced that this prime real estate would become residential, bringing 2,500 social housing units to a borough where more than 4,000 people spend the majority of their income on rent.

In 2012, the city announced that the prime real estate in Côte-des-Neiges would become residential, bringing 2,500 social housing units to a borough where more than 4,000 people spend the majority of their income on rent (Image: CBC)

Community groups are worried that without a signed deal the site’s residential vocation could be reconsidered.Hippodrome site (Image: CBC) »We’re demanding clear answers from Denis Coderre and from the executive committee, » said Jennifer Auchinleck with the Community Development Corporation.

Borough mayor Russell Copeman was not available to comment, however, last month he told CBC that there is a long way to go before anything can be done with the land once the City of Montreal takes possession.

“Buildings have to be demolished. There are no sewers. There are no water mains, there are no streets. So we’re looking at a horizon of maybe five, ten years down the road, » he said.

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Immigrants, singles hardest hit by rental housing crunch

PG — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 21:51:45 +0000

Montreal Gazette – November 11, 2014

(en anglais)

One in five tenants in Montreal are really struggling, but recent immigrants and single people are the subgroups that are hardest hit by what housing activists are calling the worst rental housing crisis since the end of the last recession in the mid-1990s.

Issues that affect immigrants and single people are seldom addressed during election campaigns. If they talk about housing at all, candidates might suggest policies to improve the plight of middle-class families. Some may even pitch ideas about getting homeless people off the streets.

With economic hardships vastly affecting some of the people who have moved to Canada, potentially in the hopes of finding some economic stability, it is understandable that some of these individuals might be considering other ways of making money, that are alternative to traditional employment. Whilst some may be looking into funds for support, some might be gathering advice about programs such as the Quebec investor program, among other investment funds to potentially start their own business, which might be a good alternative, if they were thinking about becoming self-employed. However, there are many people for who this might not be a suitable option, who are struggling in these times of economic uncertainty.

MONTREAL, QUE.: NOVEMBER 6, 2014 – Mohammad Tofazzai Hossain (Nickname is Porag, uses one of his beds as a sofa while working on his computer in his tiny 2 1/2 apartment in the Mile End in Montreal. He is one of those tenants who pays more than 80 per cent of his revenue on shelter. It is a growing crisis for one in ten tenants in this city. The problem is more severe in Cote des Neiges, and it hits immigrants the hardest. Affordable housing is the answer, but developers prefer to build condos instead.(Marie-France Coallier / Montreal Gazette)

Meanwhile, in one of every five rented households across this city, tenants are experiencing a grinding, daily anxiety over how they will make ends meet, because they are spending more than half of their household income on rent. Among tenants who are single or recent immigrants, one in every two find themselves in that situation.

« People think of the homeless in that traditional sense of sleeping on the street, but there is a huge problem of people who are constantly in these precarious housing situations where they can’t pay their rent and they keep getting evicted, so they sleep rough on people’s couches for a month or two and then start again » said Chris Schwartz, a community organizer with Project Genesis, a housing advocacy group.

Forty per cent of tenants in Montreal pay more than 30 per cent of their income on rent. Thirty per cent is the level beyond which The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation has determined a household will have to cut in other essential areas – basics like food, clothing, school supplies etc. – to pay the rent.

For 21 per cent of Montreal tenants, rent eats up more than half their income. And for more than one in ten (10.9 per cent), rent takes over 80 per cent of monthly income.

But if you are a recent immigrant or a single person, you are much more likely to be in that scrimping category; 51.4 per cent of immigrants who arrived after 2006 pay over 30 per cent in rent. And 51.5 per cent of single people do so.

Mohammad Tofazzal Hossain, 37, falls into both categories. He is single and arrived here from Bangladesh in July 2012. He recently welcomed a journalist and photographer into his tiny one-bedroom apartment in Mile End, seating us at a small card table in his bedroom, the only place to sit. He generously offered us a bag of chanachur – a spicy snack popular in his native Bangladesh – and a box of Timbits.

The bedroom has two single beds, one for him and one for his male roommate. There is a tiny kitchen, infested with cockroaches he notes, and a bathroom. The rent is $500 a month.

Hossain has had no income for months now, so the roommate is covering the rent for now. Hossain has a degree in computer engineering from the University of Dhaka, but so far in Montreal he could only find part-time work cleaning up after hours at a bar. He lost that job in April, after he fell on broken glass while working and seriously injured his ankle. His meagre unemployment insurance benefits have now run out.

« If I didn’t go to the food bank, how would I survive? » he asks. Welfare is not really an option for Hossain, as the government would reclaim that money from his sponsors. Penalizing them for helping him is the last thing Hossain wants to do.

Across Quebec almost half a million rental households (479,750 individuals or families) are spending more than 30 per cent of their monthly revenues on rent. Within that half a million, 227,835 devote more than half of their income to rent, and 108,475 spend more than 80 per cent on rent.

Housing groups like the FRAPRU are worried Premier Philippe Couillard might cut back, or even cancel, planned spending on new social housing as part of his austerity plan. The province builds between 2,000 and 3,000 units of social housing a year; FRAPRU is calling for 50,000 new units to be built over the next five years.

Michelle Lalonde

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Hard times for renters in Côte-des-Neiges

PG — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 21:20:24 +0000

Montreal Gazette – November 11, 2014

(en anglais)

Marina can’t sleep.

She is two months behind on her rent, her phone has been cut off for nonpayment, and she is behind on her electricity bill by six months.

Sixty-five years old, single and childless, Marina has not been able to find work for several years now. Originally from the Philippines, Marina worked as a nanny when she first came to Montreal as a young woman. Eventually, she managed to start a small business as a dressmaker. She cobbled together a decent living with that and working as a school lunch monitor and a caretaker for the elderly at a hospital in the evenings. But in the past decade, all of that work has dried up.

MONTREAL, QUE.: NOVEMBER 8, 2014 — A balcony with a For Rent sign on an apartment building on Barclay avenue in the borough of Côte-des-Neiges in Montreal on Saturday, November 8, 2014. Rent prices in the borough are higher than elsewhere in Montreal and the average income of tenants is lower. (Dario Ayala / Montreal Gazette)

“It’s coming down, down, down, my situation,” says Marina, who asked the Montreal Gazette not to print her real name as she fears she would be evicted if her landlord realizes just how hopeless her financial situation is.

The rent on her tiny 3½ in Côte-des-Neiges is $715 a month. Her income is $868 per month ($573 in welfare, $215 from her Quebec Pension Plan and $80 in shelter allowance) which means she devotes 82 per cent of her monthly income to keeping a roof over her head.

She eats one or two meals a day at MultiCaf, a community cafeteria and food bank. For dinner, Marina generally hopes for an invitation from one of her many “big-hearted” friends, some of whom she has helped in the past when her own situation was less dire. She borrows money from friends, too, but always pays them back.

Even with the free food and the loans, Marina’s financial situation is simply untenable. She clings to hope that she will soon get a coveted spot in an HLM, subsidized housing in which tenants are charged 25 per cent of their income toward rent. For six years, she has been on the waiting list, which is 2,558 names long in Côte-des-Neiges alone. She got to 17th from the top two years ago, but the list is operated on a points system based on need, and others in even more dire need keep leapfrogging over her. Now she’s number 58.

The saddest thing about Marina’s story is that it is so shockingly common, in Montreal in general, but in Côte-des-Neiges in particular.

Most people rent rather than own their dwellings in Côte-des-Neiges; almost 80 per cent of the households are rentals. There are 5,060 households in which the tenants devote more than 80 per cent of their household income to rent. That is 15 per cent of tenant households in that neighbourhood, compared with 11 per cent in the city of Montreal as a whole.

Last week, the housing group FRAPRU released new statistics on the rental housing crisis in Côte-des-Neiges. The group released its alarm-raising “Dossier Noir” report on the rental housing situation across the province in September based on data from the National Household Survey for 2011. But FRAPRU asked Statistics Canada for more detailed data on some of the hardest hit areas, and is now doing a Quebec-wide tour to highlight these findings as they come in.

The scale and gravity of the rental housing situation in Côte-des-Neiges “surpasses by a wide margin the already difficult conditions seen across the city of Montreal,” says François Saillant, coordinator at FRAPRU.

According to the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, tenants who pay more than 30 per cent of their income toward rent will be forced to cut in other basic areas such as food, clothing and school supplies.

In Côte-des-Neiges, 46 per cent of tenants are in that position.

Higher than average rents combined with lower than average tenant incomes are what makes Côte-des-Neiges Quebec’s capital of misery for tenants. The median household income in 2011 was $29,855 in Côte-des-Neiges, compared with $32,629 in Montreal as a whole. Median rent was $716 in this neighbourhood in 2011, and $684 in the city as a whole.

So if things are so bad for tenants in Côte-des-Neiges, why don’t they just move to a neighbourhood where rent is cheaper?

Lots of reasons, says Chris Schultz, community organizer with Project Genesis, a housing advocacy group in Côte-des-Neiges.

First, moving is expensive. Second, people with very low incomes need to rely on neighbours and friends, as well as services like MultiCaf and Project Genesis to get by. Third, landlords in Côte-des-Neiges have offered rental housing to generations of immigrants, so they may be less likely to discriminate or require credit checks than those in other parts of the city.

For Marina, it’s also a sense of belonging to the place she has called home for over 30 years. Her brown eyes fill with tears when she speaks about the difficulties of those early days, when she had trouble with her employers, knew no one in Montreal, and barely spoke French. But she has built a community now, by helping others when she can and volunteering for community groups like Project Genesis. She desperately needs help now, and she is getting some in this neighbourhood.

Schwartz says for people like Marina, the only real solution is to build more social housing in Côte-des-Neiges. That’s why housing groups have advocated for years for social housing to be built on the old Blue Bonnets racetrack site. Mayor Denis Coderre confirmed recently that a housing development with some social housing will go ahead on that site, but housing advocates want a firm commitment for 2,500 units.

“There is nowhere else. It is pretty much the last large stretch of undeveloped land in the core of Montreal, and it’s near transit and it is publicly owned,” Schwartz said. “Once this site goes, that’s it. Where else can you put all these people?”

Michelle Lalonde

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Housing organizations call for 2500 social housing units on Blue Bonnets

PG — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 19:42:29 +0000

Les Actualités – November 3, 2014

(en anglais)

The Front d’action populaire en réaménagement urbain (FRAPRU) is currently conducting a Quebec-wide tour to present the findings of its report on housing data from the 2011 National Housing Survey, titled Dossier noir sur le logement et la pauvreté.

FRAPRU, Project Genesis and OEIL Côte-des-Neiges are asking the Quebec government not to cut or cancel the financing necessary to build 50,000 new units of social housing throughout Quebec over five years.

There is no other word than “miserable” to describe the situation of tenants in Côte-des-Neiges, said François Saillant, coordinator of FRAPRU during a press conference on November 3.

Based on statistics from Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, only 9 new private market rental starts were initiated since 2011 in the area encompassing Côte-des-Neiges, NDG, Outremont, Côte St. Luc, TMR, Westmount, Hampstead and Montreal West. Meanwhile, 1597 new condominium units were initiated, said Christopher Schwartz, community organizer at Project Genesis. Private developers have abandoned building new rental units in the neighbourhood, according to Schwartz.

In this multicultural neighbourhood, tenants account for 79% of households. 5,675 households – representing 46% of neighbourhood tenants – pay more than the recommended 30% of their income in rent. Of these, 9,215 households (27% of all tenants) pay more than half of their income. 5,060 or 15% of tenant households, spend more than 80% of their income in rent – that is 15% of tenant households, said Saillant. “The scale and gravity of housing problems seen in Côte-des-Neiges surpasses by a wide margin the already difficult conditions seen across the City of Montreal.”

Côte-des-Neiges has lower than average tenant incomes and higher than average rents. Median tenant household income is $29,900, $2,800 less than the Montreal average. Median rent – $716 per month – is $32 higher than the city average.

From 2006 to 2011, average tenant household incomes rose only 4.5% while rents rose an average of 10%.

The situation for new immigrants is “scandalous”, according to Schwartz. 6,220 tenant households who arrived in Canada between 2006 and 2011 live in Côte-des-Neiges.

The NHS found that 51% of recent immigrants spent more than 30% of their income on rent, 32% more than 50% of their income, and 19% more than 80% of income.

Furthermore, 39% of recent-immigrant households live in an overcrowded dwelling, while the average is 22% in the neighbourhood and 12% city-wide.

This situation underlines the need for the Blue Bonnets site to be developed with at least 2500 units of social housing on the site, according to Schwartz.

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(Audio) Hippodrome de Montréal: des réponses claires?

PG — Tue, 14 Oct 2014 18:37:44 +0000

CKUT News – 14 octobre 2014

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Selon une entente de 2012, la province est supposée céder le terrain de 43 hectares de Blue Bonnets à la Ville de Montréal pour un développement qui profiterait aux mal-logés du quartier Côte-des-Neiges, mais le dossier stagne. Sheetal Pathak, organisatrice communautaire avec Projet Genèse nous en parle.

Blue Bonnets residential development has stalled

PG — Tue, 07 Oct 2014 15:40:19 +0000

CTV News – October 7, 2014

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It’s been more than two years since the provincial government agreed to transfer control over the former Blue Bonnets racetrack to the city of Montreal.

Plans have been made to transform the land into a new residential development.

But all that has come to a screeching halt with the realization that successive provincial governments have failed to officially cede ownership of the land to the city of Montreal.

Social housing advocates are pushing the city and the province to finalize the deal for the 40 hectares west of the Decarie Expressway.

Many are worried that the delay means the plan to build 8,000 homes on the land, with a significant number designated for low-income families, are being altered.

« We just want to seek confirmation from borough council that the land will be used for residential development, that there be public consultations before the planning starts, and that it will be implemented, » said Jennifer Auchinleck.

City Councillor Marvin Rotrand said he discovered last week that the province has yet to transfer control, and he, too, wants assurances too that the plan is still in place.

« None of the procedures that was supposed to go forward, actually went forward, » said Rotrand.

In 2012 the city of Montreal announced it would hold a year-long design contest for the region and hold public consultations.

Sales and development were supposed to begin in 2017.

« The city hasn’t done a design contest, there isn’t a plan, there isn’t a public consultation and there isn’t a plan to develop public infrastructure, » said Rotrand.

Cote des Neiges/Notre Dame de Grace Borough mayor Russell Copeman said there could be a very simple reason the paperwork hasn’t been completed: provincial and municipal elections.

« Nothing is dramatically out of whack. The site is identified in our urban plan, our regional plan, as residential. We’re in discussions with the government of Quebec over the transfer of the land and I’m confident that will happen in timely fashion, » said Copeman.

He said it will still be possible for construction to begin in 2017 and be completed by 2025.

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Social housing needed at former Blue Bonnets site, groups say

PG — Mon, 06 Oct 2014 19:56:53 +0000

Montreal Gazette – October 6, 2014

(en anglais)

Every time Chanchal Patel strolls past the former Blue Bonnets racetrack, she hopes that one day she will be able to buy a house on the site.

“There are so many people who need housing in this neighbourhood,” Patel said on Monday during at news conference in Côte-des-Neiges. “Sometimes I dream of having a house there.”

For more than 20 years, community groups in Côte-des-Neiges have been lobbying to have social housing built on the vast tract of land west of the Decarie Expressway. But community leaders say they’re worried that the city of Montreal may be reneging on a plan to build residential housing on the site. The proposed development would be one of the largest residential development projects on the island of Montreal.

Mayoralty candidate, Richard Bergeron, says if he’s elected the Blue Bonnets Raceway site would be turned into Montreal’s first ever green neighborhood, in Montreal, on Monday, October 21, 2013. Blue Bonnets Raceway closed in 2009 after 137 years of operation. (Dave Sidaway / THE GAZETTE)

La Corporation de développement communautaire de Côte-des-Neiges, which represents about 50 community groups, says they were alarmed to read a story in The Gazette last week that said the plan to build up to 5,000 housing units on the property has stalled. They’re also concerned that an agreement for Quebec to cede ownership of the 43.5-hectare property to the city of Montreal was never signed and worry that the city may scrap a plan to build residential units in favour of commercial or industrial development.

“Blue Bonnets must be used to respond to the housing needs in Côte-des-Neiges,” said Sheetal Pathak of Project Genesis. “It must be residential development and changes in orientations cannot happen without public consultation.”

The community groups say that want assurances from Mayor Denis Coderre that the city is committed to building residential housing on the site. The group would like to see 2,500 social housing units built as part of the plan because of the lack of adequate housing in Côte-des-Neiges, said Jennifer Auchinleck, a community organizer with La Corporation de développement communautaire.

“We need clarity terms of the agreement and a timetable, and we want assurances from the mayor and executive committee that the land will be used for residential development,” Auchinleck said.

City councillors and community groups who have worked for years on plans for the site believed the agreement had been signed and development was progressing, albeit behind schedule due to upheavals at Montreal city hall. Construction was supposed to start in 2017 and finish by 2025.

Marvin Rotrand, city councillor for Snowdon, said last week that civil servants at city hall have told him the project will be delayed for years and he fears that there is a movement away from residential construction without any public consultation.

But Coderre said on Monday that the he’s committed to developing Blue Bonnets and said there will be mixed housing built on the site. He said he plans to discuss the topic with provincial ministers in the coming weeks.

Katherine Wilton, Montreal

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Hippodrome: le maire veut rassurer les groupes communautaires

PG — Mon, 06 Oct 2014 17:56:46 +0000

Métro – 6 octobre 2014

Le maire de Montréal, Denis Coderre, a assuré lundi que le dossier du site de l’ancien Hippodrome reste toujours une priorité pour lui.

Alors que plusieurs groupes communautaires du secteur Côte-des-Neiges l’ont interpellé sur le sujet lundi matin, M. Coderre certifie que la signature l’entente avec le gouvernement du Québec afin qu’il cède le site de l’ancien Hippodrome de Montréal à la Ville devrait être faite incessamment.

«Je rencontre plusieurs ministres depuis quelques semaines et un des dossiers, c’est la question de l’hippodrome. Ça prend toujours plus de temps pour la signature du contrat, on parle d’une transaction de plusieurs millions de dollars», a indiqué le maire lundi après-midi.

L’ancien Hippodrome de Montréal (Image: Yves Proverncher / Métro)

La Corporation de développement communautaire (CDC) de Côte-des-Neiges, qui regroupe 50 groupes communautaires, se sont dit choqués d’apprendre la semaine dernière que cette entente faite entre Québec et la Ville de Montréal en 2012 n’a toujours pas été signée.

Le conseiller de Snowdon, Marvin Rotrand, dénonçait alors qu’il soit impossible de trouver dans les documents de la Ville un engagement à développer le site avec une vocation résidentielle, tel qu’il avait été convenu en 2012, avec un partage des profits entre Montréal et la province. Il s’inquiète que des portions importantes du site aient une vocation commerciale ou même industrielle, comme des services municipaux lui ont laissé entendre.

«Une vocation autre que résidentielle pour ce terrain serait totalement inacceptable compte tenu des besoins du quartier», a assuré Sheetal Pathak, organisatrice communautaire à la CDC de Côté-des-Neiges.

Elle soutient que le développement du terrain de l’ancien hippodrome avec un objectif de 5000 à 8000 logements, dont 2500 logements sociaux selon leurs souhaits, est plus que nécessaire en raison des statistiques du quartier.

«À Côté-des-Neiges, il y a 4245 ménages locataires qui paient plus que 80% de leur revenu pour se loger. Il y a une pénurie de logements sociaux dans le quartier et très peu de terrains disponibles pour en construire actuellement», ajoute Mme Pathak.

Questionné sur le sujet, le maire Denis Coderre assure que «la question de la mixité sociale [va faire partie de l’entente], c’est toujours la même chose», ajoutant qu’il rencontre Martin Coiteux, président du Conseil du trésor, dans les prochains jours.

La Ville de Montréal a confirmé la semaine dernière que l’acte de vente n’a pas été signé par le gouvernement du Québec. «La Ville est présentement en discussion avec le gouvernement afin de trouver la procédure la plus simple pour que les deux parties puissent rencontrer leurs obligations respectives tout en maintenant les objectifs de développement du site», avait indiqué à Métro le porte-parole de la Ville, François Goneau, dans un échange de courriels. Ce dernier a précisé que des détails doivent être précisés en ce qui concerne «les procédures règlementaires, légales et techniques».

Le développement du site de l’Hippodrome de Montréal doit avoir lieu de 2017 à 2025, selon les plans de la Ville. Celle-ci n’a pas confirmé si une réflexion est en cours sur les différentes vocations du site.

«On aimerait savoir que le tout est maintenu, qu’on garde le même échéancier, mais on serait vraiment rassurés de le savoir de la part de Denis Coderre et du comité exécutif de façon très claire. On veut être certains que l’entente telle que négociée soit maintenue et qu’on garde la vocation résidentielle», a réagi Jennifer Auchinleck, organisatrice communautaire.

La CDC souhaite également qu’une consultation publique soit organisée par l’Office de consultation publique de Montréal sur le développement du projet et que le conseil d’arrondissement de Côté-des-Neiges prenne position en faveur d’une vocation résidentielle.

L’arrondissement de Côte-des-neiges a indiqué que le maire de l’arrondissement, Russell Copeman, n’était pas disponible pour répondre aux question de Métro.

Laurence Houde-Roy

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(Audio) Social Housing in Côte-des-Neiges

PG — Wed, 24 Sep 2014 19:05:53 +0000

CKUT Off the Hour – September 24, 2014

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Featured on today’s program: -We’ll be speaking with Sheetal Pathak of Project Genesis about the Blue Bonnets social housing project in Cote-des-Neiges, and more.

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