{"id":7112,"date":"2014-06-11T18:16:42","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T22:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/project-genesis-budget-2\/"},"modified":"2021-01-02T00:07:36","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T05:07:36","slug":"project-genesis-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/project-genesis-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Genesis on the Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-kjf519de-725bfe8646a90b207c26c30927a1797f\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-kjf519de-725bfe8646a90b207c26c30927a1797f{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-kjf519de-725bfe8646a90b207c26c30927a1797f .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-kjf519de-725bfe8646a90b207c26c30927a1797f .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-kjf519de-725bfe8646a90b207c26c30927a1797f 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\"  >The Suburban &#8211; June 11, 2014 (p.13)<\/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-3700zc-b1bc4ab74850b19043f6ee8b4a33a898 '   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-7110 size-portfolio\" src=\"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014-0611-suburban-PG-on-the-budget5-495x365.jpg\" alt=\"The Suburban - Project Genesis on the Budget\" width=\"495\" height=\"365\" \/><em><strong>Affordable housing crisis, social security protection not addressed<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Project Genesis, an Anti-Poverty\u00a0community organisation in C\u00f4te- des-Neiges,\u00a0criticized last week&rsquo;s budget.<\/p>\n<p>According to Cathy Inouye, a community\u00a0organiser with the group, \u00ab\u00a0this\u00a0budget puts social programs underthe microscope, instead of the structural\u00a0causes of poverty.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p>The lack of commitment to the\u00a0construction of social housing is particularly\u00a0distressing to the organisation\u00a0as it already sees several cases of\u00a0eviction per week, many of them families\u00a0with children or senior citizens.<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab\u00a0Income has simply not kept up with\u00a0the rent increases we have seen over\u00a0the past 15 years,\u00a0\u00bb says community\u00a0organiser Christopher Schwartz, \u00ab\u00a0and\u00a0families can no longer afford to pay\u00a0the rent.\u00a0\u00bb The government&rsquo;s commitment\u00a0to constructing a mere 3,000\u00a0social housing units through\u00a0Acc\u00e8sLogis for all of Quebec is a drop\u00a0in the bucket, given the fact that\u00a0almost 2,500 households are on the\u00a0waiting list for low-cost housing in\u00a0the borough of C\u00f4te-des-NeigesNotre-Dame-de-Gr\u00e2ce\u00a0alone. The organisation, as a member of\u00a0FRAPRU, demands that the government\u00a0commit to constructing 50,000\u00a0social housing units over five years.<\/p>\n<p>Project Genesis is also struggling to\u00a0keep pace with the increasing demand\u00a0for help filling out welfare applications\u00a0&#8211; a service that used to be provided\u00a0by the local employment offices.<\/p>\n<p>Given the global hiring freeze\u00a0announced, the organisation fears\u00a0that the process of applying for last resort\u00a0financial assistant will become\u00a0even more opaque for those most in\u00a0need. \u00ab\u00a0The government cuts services\u00a0and community organisations like\u00a0Project Genesis are left to pick up the\u00a0slack,\u00a0\u00bb says Inouye, \u00ab\u00a0however we are\u00a0simply unable to compensate for the\u00a0government&rsquo;s withdrawal.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014-0613-suburban-PG-budget.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PDF<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Suburban \u2013 June 11, 2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7110,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[281,59],"tags":[293,161,159,295],"class_list":["post-7112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dans-les-medias","category-nouvelles","tag-access-aide-sociale","tag-droit-au-logement","tag-lutte-a-la-pauvrete","tag-nouveaux-logements-sociaux"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 02:33:30","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\/7112","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=7112"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17063,"href":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7112\/revisions\/17063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genese.qc.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}