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.

  • Nutbane
    581·
    1 year ago

    Quotes from Developer Nicola Padulo:

    “If people can’t afford it, they should not live in the city. The city is made for the privileged.”

    He says the city wants to “put its nose” in his business.

    • Yardy Sardley
      541·
      1 year ago

      I’d love to see the privileged try to live in a city devoid of any service workers.

      • Saneless@sh.itjust.works
        211·
        1 year ago

        My city is kinda like that. Stores have no checkouts open, fast food is bad and takes forever, and restaurants are never as good in other towns

        They cry anytime affordable housing pops up yet don’t understand why no one is around to stock the grocery store

        • Kahlenar@lemmy.world
          17·
          1 year ago

          That always cracks me up about Atlas shrugged. A colony of people who think they’re too good to clean toilets, gonna go far.

        • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
          101·
          1 year ago

          The right wing consistently shoots themselves in the feet and cry about how evil everyone else is for gently suggesting that maybe we at least switch to .22 rounds instead of buckshot

      • ILikeBoobies
        111·
        1 year ago

        I love this point because they really don’t understand that if you put all the minimum wage employees 3 hours away from the city then they will need to drive 3 hours to get groceries

        • oʍʇǝuoǝnu
          6·
          1 year ago

          It’s not just out of touch rich assholes who think this. I have so many friends that love to say people who work at don’t deserve to live in any city and should get a real job. The most ironic part is non of them know how to cook and rely on fast food for the majority of their meals.

          People making under the median household income are the ones who keep the city functioning and they deserve to live in the city more than someone making 300k a year.

        • Mossheart
          21·
          1 year ago

          No they won’t. They’ll just pay for delivery and carry on.