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MONTREAL - Rooming or boarding houses are regaining favour with some Canadian cities as a way to offset a lack of affordable homes, but experts warn there are pitfalls to the once-popular form of urban housing.
“Few dates are more mobilizing than July 1,” say 14 Quebec mayors. “Families on the street, households housed in hotels, explosion of homelessness: the crisis crushes more people each year
Breaking News, Sports, Manitoba, Canada
Breaking News, Sports, Manitoba, Canada
MONTREAL - For six years, the City of Montreal has been sitting on a vast piece of land that could help relieve a housing shortage, but private developers, whom the city needs to realize its vision for an affordable "eco neighbourhood," have so far expressed little interest.