{"id":6295,"date":"2014-11-03T14:42:29","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T19:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/les-actualites-housing-organizations-call-2500-social-housing-units-blue-bonnets-2\/"},"modified":"2021-01-01T11:30:31","modified_gmt":"2021-01-01T16:30:31","slug":"les-actualites-housing-organizations-call-2500-social-housing-units-blue-bonnets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/les-actualites-housing-organizations-call-2500-social-housing-units-blue-bonnets\/","title":{"rendered":"Housing organizations call for 2500 social housing units on Blue Bonnets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-kjeht0ou-138361f5bc520297fffdecbac4cedc7d\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-kjeht0ou-138361f5bc520297fffdecbac4cedc7d{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-kjeht0ou-138361f5bc520297fffdecbac4cedc7d .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-kjeht0ou-138361f5bc520297fffdecbac4cedc7d .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-kjeht0ou-138361f5bc520297fffdecbac4cedc7d 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\"  >Les Actualit\u00e9s &#8211; November 3, 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-kja7fqd1-414b32963e0a3aeaf19c370ae7c6f9f7 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-7138 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014-1103-actualites-housing-organizations2-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Les Actualit\u00e9s - Housing organizations call for 2500 social housing units on Blue Bonnets\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014-1103-actualites-housing-organizations2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014-1103-actualites-housing-organizations2-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014-1103-actualites-housing-organizations2-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014-1103-actualites-housing-organizations2-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014-1103-actualites-housing-organizations2-180x180.jpg 180w, https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014-1103-actualites-housing-organizations2-705x705.jpg 705w, https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014-1103-actualites-housing-organizations2-120x120.jpg 120w, https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014-1103-actualites-housing-organizations2-450x450.jpg 450w, https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014-1103-actualites-housing-organizations2.jpg 771w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Front d\u2019action populaire en r\u00e9am\u00e9nagement 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 <em>Dossier noir sur le logement et la pauvret\u00e9<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>FRAPRU, Project Genesis and OEIL C\u00f4te-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.<\/p>\n<p>There is no other word than \u201cmiserable\u201d to describe the situation of tenants in C\u00f4te-des-Neiges, said Fran\u00e7ois Saillant, coordinator of FRAPRU during a press conference on November 3.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>Based on statistics from Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, only 9 new private market rental starts were initiated since 2011 in the area encompassing C\u00f4te-des-Neiges, NDG, Outremont, C\u00f4te 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.<\/p>\n<p>In this multicultural neighbourhood, tenants account for 79% of households.\u00a0 5,675 households \u2013 representing 46% of neighbourhood tenants \u2013 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 \u2013 that is 15% of tenant households, said Saillant.\u00a0 \u201cThe scale and gravity of housing problems seen in C\u00f4te-des-Neiges surpasses by a wide margin the already difficult conditions seen across the City of Montreal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>C\u00f4te-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 \u2013 $716 per month \u2013 is $32 higher than the city average.<\/p>\n<p>From 2006 to 2011, average tenant household incomes rose only 4.5% while rents rose an average of 10%.<\/p>\n<p>The situation for new immigrants is \u201cscandalous\u201d, according to Schwartz. 6,220 tenant households who arrived in Canada between 2006 and 2011 live in C\u00f4te-des-Neiges.<\/p>\n<p>The NHS found that 51% of\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, 39% of recent-immigrant households live in an overcrowded dwelling, while the average is 22% in the neighbourhood and 12% city-wide.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014-1103-actualites-Housing-organizations-call-for-2500-social-housing-units-on-.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PDF<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Les Actualit\u00e9s \u2013 November 3, 2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7138,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[249,295],"class_list":["post-6295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dans-les-medias","tag-logements-sociaux-sur-blue-bonnets","tag-nouveaux-logements-sociaux"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 06:51:00","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\/6295","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=6295"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16874,"href":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6295\/revisions\/16874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}