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Montreal Mayor and State Opposition Leader Montreal Affordable housing shortages will be exacerbated if more money is not available.
Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante and Quebec Solidarity Spokesman Manon Masse are separated today before July 1, the traditional Quebec moving day. I pleaded at the press conference.
Montreal has been waiting for the last four years for millions of dollars that the federal government has promised to build 1,200 affordable homes and refurbish 4,700 more, Plante said. increase.
Masse states that low-income households in Montreal and other states spend up to 85% of their monthly income on housing.
A coalition of Quebec housing commissions and renters' associations released a report over the weekend, with state-wide rents rising 9% between 2021 and 2022, averaging $ 1,300 per month. I showed that I did.
Masse states on July 1 that many families in the state will be forced to stay or move to unsanitary or unneeded homes.
According to a survey released by the Association of Homebuilders last week, Quebec has no 100,000 homes and more than 37,000 are on the waiting list to access public housing.
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