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.
Not the builders … the developers. There’s a difference.
You mean like construction contractors? Those people either directly or indirectly work for the developers. It’s not speculators and landlords being punished people, it’s people trying to get housing built, in a housing crisis.
Yes, I know that most of the people running the development industry are dead-eyed reptiles doing it for profit, but still: the shit they’re looking to profit from is building homes people live in. Something the government should not be adding extra taxes upon.