Quebec is in ‘historic housing crisis’ ahead of July 1, say housing advocates – Montreal | 24CA News
With 9 days left till transferring day, Catherine Brunette says it has been unattainable to search out an inexpensive three-bedroom condo to lease in Montreal for her and her two youngsters.
“I’m stressed because I don’t want to find myself in the streets,” she stated. “I’m doing all I can.”
Québec Solidaire spokesperson, Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois says, sadly, she’s not alone.
“The prices of houses in Quebec have increased three times faster than the salaries since François Legault is in power, so salaries are not following the prices of the houses,” he stated.
On prime of that, he and housing advocates say that Bill 31, the federal government’s newly tabled laws, would worsen the present housing disaster.
The invoice proposes putting off rental lease transfers — a instrument that has helped maintain housing inexpensive — and they’re urging the Legault authorities to revise it.
“We are in a very difficult situation, we are in a historic crisis and we have a government that is minimizing the problem,” stated Nadeau-Dubois.
The authorities is already in sizzling water over the housing disaster.
Quebec’s housing minister France-Élaine Duranceau, herself a former actual property agent, met with a former business companion who’s now a registered lobbyist.
That has sparked an investigation by the province’s ethics commissioner.
“There will be an investigation and we will collaborate,” stated Legault, whereas defending his housing minister on Wednesday.
He additionally stated that nobody can be left within the streets on July 1, including that his authorities will be sure to search out non permanent housing for individuals, if needed.
To make their voices on Bill 31 heard, housing rights advocates have organized two protests on Thursday: one in Quebec City and one in Montreal within the Parc-Extension borough.
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