St. Laurent authorizes funding for $54 million social housing project
St. Laurent council voted last week at a special council meeting to authorize the City of Montreal to use $540,500 from a social inclusion fundâreserved for the boroughâ to "help finance the construction of the Coopérative dâhabitation laurentienne's project." The planned 169-unit project is located in the Bois-Franc Transit Oriented Development area, on Marcel Laurin Blvd. A borough announcement says the project "provides for 75 percent of these social housing units on eight storeys to include two or more bedrooms in order to meet the diversified needs of the target populat...