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Montreal scraps social and affordable housing bylaw, will offer city land for housing
Montreal simplifies housing rules to require 20% off-market units on large projects, offers 80 city lots and $80 million in funding to support non-profits and developers.
- Replacing Valérie Plante's policy, Montreal Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada announced she will scrap the 20-20-20 bylaw and present a new '20 per cent off-market' plan on Monday.
- Martinez Ferrada said the change follows her campaign promise and responds to a housing crisis affecting all Montrealers, noting developers built outside the city under prior rules.
- Only very large projects will face the new rule, with the administration identifying 80 municipally owned lots and about 40 sites ready within three years, plus $30 million to reduce land costs and $50 million for site preparation.
- Tenant advocates warned of consequences for affordable housing as Catherine Lussier, co-ordinator for tenants rights' group FRAPRU, called removal a blow to tenants amid prior social housing underfunding.
- The administration says it will publish a complete map of city lots by March 1, and has allocated funds to support non-profit projects, with the financial contribution frozen at 2025 levels.
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Montreal scraps social and affordable housing bylaw, will offer city land for housing
Breaking News, Sports, Manitoba, Canada
·Winnipeg, Canada
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Soraya Martinez Ferrada begins the abolition of the Mixed Metropolis (MMR) Regulations, as promised in the countryside. It will replace it in the short term with a requirement of 20% off-market housing, but plans to remove it completely and replace it with financial incentives for construction within a few months.
·Montreal, Canada
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The new Mayor of Montreal intends to replace the Regulations for a Mixed Metropolis of the Plante Administration with more flexible regulations.
·Montreal, Canada
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