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MONTREAL Protesters are calling for more social housing in a demonstration Saturday in Montreal’s Sud-Ouest borough, where rents are among the highest in the city.
Veronique Laflamme, a spokeswoman for the Popular Action Front for Urban Redevelopment, says the group is asking Quebec’s Housing Ministry to adjust its assistance programs and dole out more emergency funding to ensure lower-wage tenants don’t lose their homes come July 1.
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The group is demanding 50,000 more social housing units over five years, either via new builds or by acquiring and converting existing buildings.
MONTREAL Quebec Solidaire (QS) is inviting citizens to continue demonstrating and writing to Housing Minister Andree Laforest and Premier Francois Legault to decry the housing crisis in the province. The opposition party organized an assembly of the evicted on Saturday, which included spokesperson Manon Masse and the MNA responsible for the file, Andres Fontecilla. They listened for more than an hour to the testimonies of representatives of organizations and citizens who have to fight with their landlords not to leave their housing. Some suggested a moratorium on evictions during the pandemic and a registry of delinquent landlords. Masse argued that the ten QS MNAs were taking this fight to the National Assembly, but, she said, it would not be enough to turn the government machine around.