Land bank
FECHIMM’s political action committee manifest alongside members of FRAPRU
June 17, 2014
Members of the Political Action Committee participated on June 16 in a spaghetti dinner organized by the FRAPRU in front of Montreal City Hall. Approximately a hundred persons attending the dinner called on the municipal government for a purchasing and site reservation policy specifically dedicated to social housing. According to FRAPRU’s brief, they also denounced the lack of social housing in Montreal and the slowness with which they are built.
They targeted the City and the boroughs that accommodate developers and property owners, granting them the necessary zoning derogations to build their condo projects, but leave Montreal’s vulnerable people at the mercy of gentrification which undermines the inner city rental housing.
The creation of a land bank for the development of new housing cooperatives is one of FECHIMM’s demands.