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Every developer has opted to pay Montreal instead of building affordable housing, under new bylaw (www.cbc.ca)
submitted 10 months ago by girlfreddy@sh.itjust.works to c/canada@lemmy.ca
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Two years after Valérie Plante's administration said a new housing bylaw would lead to the construction of 600 new social housing units per year, the city hasn't seen a single one.

The Bylaw for a Diverse Metropolis forces developers to include social, family and, in some places, affordable housing units to any new projects larger than 4,843 square feet.

If they don't, they must pay a fine or hand over land, buildings or individual units for the city to turn into affordable or social housing.

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[-] BloodForTheBloodGod@lemmy.ca 36 points 10 months ago

Just start seizing rentals already.

[-] jackoneill@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago

Seriously. Everybody keeps their family home. Anybody with income earning property gets that turned over to the state to be converted into affordable state run family housing to give the market a reasonable floor and get more people able to own their own family home

[-] niisyth@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago

Probably start with the investment firms and mass landlords and we might never even need to get to individual landowners.

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

1 to 3 units > can be owned by anyone

4 to 8 units > need to be registered as a company

9 units or more > owned by a non profit crown corporation

[-] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

So, like, if you reduced the number of rentals and made it uneconomical to build rentals, would you expect the cost of rent to go up or down?

[-] BloodForTheBloodGod@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

Society can build things without a profit motive.

Housing should be a human right, so rent abolition is next after expropriation of land leeches.

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