{"id":6243,"date":"2014-09-21T15:30:36","date_gmt":"2014-09-21T19:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/?p=6243"},"modified":"2021-01-01T22:13:24","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T03:13:24","slug":"cbc-news-blue-bonnets-advocates-push-affordable-housing-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/cbc-news-blue-bonnets-advocates-push-affordable-housing-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Bonnets: Advocates push for affordable housing community"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-kjf4pmlc-2057aa97bd6cc7f8dba998e2b3592364\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-kjf4pmlc-2057aa97bd6cc7f8dba998e2b3592364{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-kjf4pmlc-2057aa97bd6cc7f8dba998e2b3592364 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-kjf4pmlc-2057aa97bd6cc7f8dba998e2b3592364 .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-kjf4pmlc-2057aa97bd6cc7f8dba998e2b3592364 av-special-heading-h5 blockquote modern-quote  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first '><h5 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >CBC News &#8211; September 21, 2014<\/h5><div class='av-subheading av-subheading_below'><p>(en anglais)<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-kj9ctber-53c7218964c6ccdbc82564b377d44a78 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/montreal\/blue-bonnets-advocates-push-for-affordable-housing-community-1.2773319\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-7160 size-portfolio\" src=\"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014-0921-cbc-news-blue-bonnets2-495x400.jpg\" alt=\"CBC news - Blue Bonnets: Advocates push for affordable housing community\" width=\"495\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014-0921-cbc-news-blue-bonnets2-495x400.jpg 495w, https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014-0921-cbc-news-blue-bonnets2-845x684.jpg 845w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Social housing proponents are advocating for the conversion of the old Blue Bonnets race track into a new, affordable neighbourhood.<\/p>\n<p>The 43-acre race track near the D\u00e9carie Expressway has been sitting vacant since 2009 and control of the property has since been transferred from the province to the City of Montreal.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, social housing advocates took part in talks\u00a0on what to do with the property.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6457\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6457\" class=\"wp-image-6457 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014-0921-cbc-jennifer-auchinleck.jpg\" alt=\"Jennifer Auchinleck\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6457\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jennifer Auchinleck of the C\u00f4te-des-Neiges Community Development Corporation said Saturday&rsquo;s discussions produced a wealth of ideas for what a housing development at Blue Bonnets should look like. (Image: CBC)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>They say developers are focusing more on condos at the expense of rental properties and the need for government-funded affordable housing is growing.<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab\u00a0That&rsquo;s the only way we&rsquo;re going to get it, unfortunately, because the private market just isn&rsquo;t that interested in building rental housing anymore,\u201d said Susan Fitch, a volunteer with the Project Genesis housing rights advocacy organization.<\/p>\n<p>Affordable housing advocates say around 10,000 C\u00f4te-des-Neiges\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Notre-Dame-de-Gr\u00e2ce\u00a0households spend more than half their income on rent.<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Auchinleck of the C\u00f4te-des-Neiges Community Development Corporation told CBC News that Saturday\u2019s discussion provided ample food for thought.<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab\u00a0How can we create a neighbourhood that&rsquo;s really good for families? What do we need for senior citizens? How can we organize the neighbourhood so youth feel really included and really involved? Really interesting discussions,\u00a0\u00bb she said.<\/p>\n<p>Borough Mayor Russell Copeman said there\u2019s a long way to go before anything can be done with the Blue Bonnets land once the City of Montreal takes possession.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBuildings have to be demolished. There are no sewers. There are no water mains, there are no streets. So we&rsquo;re looking at a horizon of maybe five, ten years down the road,\u00a0\u00bb he said.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, advocates like Fitch and others will continue their campaign to see the City of Montreal put its money on affordable housing down at the old racetrack.<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab\u00a0I have a lot of memories of seeing the horse racing on television when I was a kid. People used to place their bets there, their dreams, you know, for a better life. Now we&rsquo;re doing that same thing again,\u201d Fitch told CBC News.<\/p>\n<p><b><a title=\"CBC news - Blue Bonnets: advocates push for affordable housing community\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/montreal\/blue-bonnets-advocates-push-for-affordable-housing-community-1.2773319\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Watch video on the CBC website<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014-0921-CBC-news-Blue-Bonnets-Advocates-push-for-affordable-housing-communit.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PDF<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBC News &#8211; September 21, 2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7160,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[281,59],"tags":[189,249,295],"class_list":["post-6243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dans-les-medias","category-nouvelles","tag-logement-social","tag-logements-sociaux-sur-blue-bonnets","tag-nouveaux-logements-sociaux"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-10 21:57:23","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6243"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16989,"href":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6243\/revisions\/16989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}