(Sherbrooke) Québec solidaire promises to build 25,000 “modern and ecological” social housing units in a first mandate. The other half would be built in a second term.
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The 25,000 dwellings will be “comfortable, well-appointed, ecological and adapted to people’s needs”, promises the left-wing party, which denounces the Coalition avenir Québec, which has “broken” its promise to build 15,000 social housing units. “She only delivered half of it,” he lamented. The promise should cost 3.2 billion over four years.
The party wants to break the prejudices on social housing, which would be “synonymous with small poorly built and poorly maintained housing”. “With Québec solidaire, when we think of social housing, we will think of spacious and well-lit interiors, of common spaces inside and green spaces outside, buildings that meet the latest standards in energy efficiency,” it says.
It remains to be seen whether this promise would be welcomed by tenant defense groups, such as FRAPRU, which are demanding 50,000 new social housing units in five years. In addition to new construction, a Québec solidaire government “will acquire existing buildings to convert them into community housing”.