{"id":6900,"date":"2014-12-12T10:50:50","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T15:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/?p=6900"},"modified":"2021-01-01T21:56:54","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T02:56:54","slug":"groups-outraged-social-housing-project-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/groups-outraged-social-housing-project-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"Groups outraged social housing project could fall through"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-kjf46swa-22783153c227e304a4a718835dad245c\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-kjf46swa-22783153c227e304a4a718835dad245c{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-kjf46swa-22783153c227e304a4a718835dad245c .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-kjf46swa-22783153c227e304a4a718835dad245c .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-kjf46swa-22783153c227e304a4a718835dad245c 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; October 6, 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-kj9dztun-dc56946b883e840408d256d97814c0c5 '   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\/groups-outraged-social-housing-project-could-fall-through-1.2789538\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-7163 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014-1006-cbc-news-300x296.jpg\" alt=\"CBC News - Groups outraged social housing project could fall through\" width=\"300\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014-1006-cbc-news-300x296.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014-1006-cbc-news-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014-1006-cbc-news-600x592.jpg 600w, https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014-1006-cbc-news-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014-1006-cbc-news-705x695.jpg 705w, https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014-1006-cbc-news-450x444.jpg 450w, https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014-1006-cbc-news.jpg 919w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is an outcry in C\u00f4te-des-Neiges after reports that a community housing plan could fall through.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, news broke that an agreement to convert the former Hippodrome de Montr\u00e9al site into affordable housing had never been signed. Community organizers are calling on Mayor Denis Coderre to intervene and respect the original agreement.<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab\u00a0Condos here, condos\u00a0going up there\u00a0\u2014\u00a0we are not a part of it,\u00a0\u00bb said Leroy Wedderburn, a member of Project Genesis,\u00a0one of the groups asking the mayor to commit to turning the site \u2014\u00a0once called the Blue Bonnets Raceway \u2014\u00a0into housing.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6901\" style=\"width: 505px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6901\" class=\"wp-image-6901 size-portfolio\" src=\"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014-1006-cbc-cote-des-neige-community-housing1-495x349.jpg\" alt=\"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 Montr\u00e9al. (Image: CBC)\" width=\"495\" height=\"349\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6901\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">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 Montr\u00e9al. (Image: CBC)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>He said many in the community feel they are watching the community grow without input from residents,\u00a0and\u00a0elected officials are not paying attention to those who need assistance.<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab\u00a0[There\u2019s] no interest for the small man and the poor people [who]\u00a0need it most,\u00a0\u00bb said Wedderburn.<\/p>\n<p>In 2012,\u00a0the 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.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.2789559.1412638117!\/fileImage\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/original_300\/hippodrome-site.jpg\" alt=\"Hippodrome site \" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">In 2012, the city announced that the prime real estate in C\u00f4te-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)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Community groups are worried that without a signed deal the\u00a0site&rsquo;s residential vocation could\u00a0be reconsidered.Hippodrome site (Image: CBC)\u00a0\u00bbWe&rsquo;re demanding clear answers from Denis Coderre and from the executive committee,\u00a0\u00bb said Jennifer Auchinleck with the\u00a0Community Development Corporation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"figure-caption\">\u00a0Borough mayor Russell Copeman was not available to comment, however, last month he told CBC that\u00a0there is a long way to go before anything can be done with the\u00a0land 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><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014-1006-cbc-groups-outraged.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PDF<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBC News &#8211; October 6, 2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7163,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[281,59],"tags":[249,295],"class_list":["post-6900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dans-les-medias","category-nouvelles","tag-logements-sociaux-sur-blue-bonnets","tag-nouveaux-logements-sociaux"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 00:55:19","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\/6900","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=6900"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16979,"href":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6900\/revisions\/16979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}