The positions of the parties

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The two parties likely to win in the November 5 municipal elections in Montreal, Équipe Denis Coderre for Montréal and Projet Montréal, have laid out certain commitments concerning the issues defended by FECHIMM.

We offer you an overview of the proposals put forward by both parties since the beginning of the campaign.

Heard during the campaign in Montreal

What the candidates we met have said about FECHIMM's priorities

Équipe Denis Coderre pour Montréal

Commitments in the program

Projet Montréal

Commitments in the program

Heard during the campaign in Montreal

WHAT THE CANDIDATES WE MET HAVE SAID about FECHIMM's priorities

On a special tax status for co-operatives

Équipe Denis Coderre

Frantz Benjamin, Borough Councillor for Villeray - St-Michel - Parc-Extension (St-Michel sector) and outgoing President of the City Council
Very interested in this possibility. Would be willing to work with FECHIMM to move this issue forward. Wants more information (for example, studies).

Dimitrios Jim Beis, outgoing mayor for Pierrefonds-Roxboro
Expresses interest in the idea and is willing to collaborate within a working group of the co-operative movement and the City Council.

Richard Bergeron, outgoing councillor for Ville-Marie (St-Jacques sector) and a member of the Executive Committee of the City Council
Considers that this is a possibility, but would like to tie it to mechanisms for protecting co-operative assets, for example by making it a condition for co-operatives that would benefit from a particular tax status to join a real estate trust.

Projet Montréal

Michèle Chappaz, mayoral candidate in Verdun
Agrees with the idea, as it is a way of countering the effects of speculation and gentrification in neighborhoods

Robert Beaudry, candidate in Ville-Marie (St-Jacques sector)
Community organizations are already benefiting from tax exemptions. Why would this not be the case for co-operatives? This way, we could continue to promote diversity in the downtown area and enjoy the benefits of gentrification.

Other parties

Alain Gaudreault, candidate for Vrai changement pour Montréal in Ville-Marie (St-Jacques sector)
We should freeze the taxes and instead seek a maximum of revenue from the Government of Quebec

On the creation of a land reserve

Équipe Denis Coderre

No commitment.

Projet Montréal

It features in the party’s platform.

Pierre Lessard-Blais, mayoral candidate in Mercier – Hochelaga – Maisonneuve
I personally support this proposal of land reserves. Co-operatives are essential for the proper development of neighborhoods under real estate pressure in Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve. I hope we can fully develop them.

Jabiz Sharifian, candidate in Ville-Marie (Peter McGill sector)
We will acquire land, even contaminated land, and paramunicipal organizations will build social housing. We will make sure that social housing is built downtown. In the Peter McGill sector, only 1.6% of social housing dwellings were completed, instead of the 15% forecast in the inclusion strategy.

On maintaining the referendum approval right

Équipe Denis Coderre

All the Équipe Coderre candidates voted to replace the referendum approval with an upstream consultation mechanism by relying on the Office de consultation publique de Montréal (OCPM).

Projet Montréal

Pierre Lessard-Blais, mayoral candidate for Mercier – Hochelaga-Maisonneuve
Supports maintaining the referendum. Participatory democracy is part of Projet Montréal's DNA. Plans on releasing participatory budgets for citizens' committees.


Équipe Denis Coderre's Commitments for Montréal

The outgoing mayor's party regroups its housing commitments under the heading "Housing and Families" which is one of the five challenges for Montréal. The social and community housing platform is about building more affordable, social, and student housing.

In order to do this, Équipe Denis Coderre for Montréal pledges to launch AccèsLogis Montréal, a development assistance program with the objective of creating 5,000 new social and community housing units for low and modestincome households during the next term.

He also plans on using the new powers granted by the Metropolis Act to develop a strategy for the inclusion of affordable and social housing in real estate projects.

As part of the Montréal Action Plan on Homelessness, the party also promises to build 400 new units in rooming houses.


Projet Montréal’s commitments

The platform for the party led by Valérie Plante includes several measures promoting the development of social and community housing and universal accessibility. Projet Montréal intends, among other things, to encourage the recycling and renovation of heritage buildings so that they can be quickly offered to the community through the creation of community areas and social housing.

Land and buildings banks and investments in decontamination

If elected, Projet Montréal promises to systematically evaluate the sites belonging to the City in order to prioritize the development of collective projects, including social and community housing. The creation of a Montréal land trust to provide long-term protection for City-owned land that will be leased to social and affordable housing partners over the long term is also included in its platform.

The party also made a commitment to buy sites and decontaminate them. To achieve this last goal, the administration plans to negotiate with higher levels of government a bipartite or tripartite decontamination program.

Subsidies for tenants

Projet Montréal wants to implement, with the Québec Government support, long-term rent supplement allowances in social and affordable housing projects.

Financing development programs

Projet Montréal will ask the Quebec government to modify the AccèsLogis program so that it can meet the current costs of building units and buying land in Montréal. It will also call on provincial and federal governments to invest in social and community housing programs.

Inclusion regulation

In terms of inclusion, Projet Montréal proposes to go from a strategy to a policy with a regulation. Applied to all projects of five or more units, it provides for a rate of 20% of social housing (OMHM, co-operative, NPO) and 20% of sustainable affordable housing (rental or condominium). The regulation would include the possibility for promoters to offer a monetary compensation to the social housing fund when the inclusion of units proves impossible.

Reduce homelessness

Projet Montréal is committed to ensuring a minimum of 300 new units per year to meet the needs of people that are homeless or at risk of homelessness and who require special services (situations of violence, certain disabilities, etc.).

Reduce the tax burden

Projet Montréal wants to implement more equitable tax measures to promote the sustainable economic development of the city. However, it does not mention a special status for housing co-operatives linked to their social mission.

Universal accessibility

The party proposes to draw up, in partnership with sectoral organizations, a portrait of the needs for adapted housing for people with reduced mobility. According to these needs, the party also wants to regulate the minimum adapted housing units to be included in all real estate projects.

The party also mentions the construction of universally accessible buildings without specifying the measures it intends to put in place to honour that commitment. However, it plans to increase the subsidies for the renovation of residential buildings to bring more buildings to be universally accessible.

The creation of a single window of universal accessibility to inform individuals, organizations, or stakeholders of the availability of accessible, adapted, or adaptable housing is also included in its platform.

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