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Two years after Valérie Plante's administration said a new housing bylaw would lead to the construction of 600 new social housing units per year, the city hasn't seen a single one.

The Bylaw for a Diverse Metropolis forces developers to include social, family and, in some places, affordable housing units to any new projects larger than 4,843 square feet.

If they don't, they must pay a fine or hand over land, buildings or individual units for the city to turn into affordable or social housing.

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[-] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago

This has always been ridiculous. This kind of Inclusionary Zoning doesn't apply to detached homes, only to highrise condos - that is, to small units that are for many people how they're entering the housing market. Expecting builders to cover affordable housing raises costs for those buyers.

I firmly support affordable housing developments, but expecting housing for those most unable to afford it to be funded by the second-most-unable is insanity. Every other social project is funded by taxpayers, but somehow in a housing crisis where we've a massive shortage of housing, we expect to shove a boat-anchor onto the costs of the very people we expect to solve the crisis and let them bear the cost? That's lunacy.

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