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\u2018Real social effects\u2019 <\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

By Joel Ceausu<\/b>
www.thesuburban.com<\/a><\/p>\n

It\u2019s not the wholesale scrapping advocates feared but it\u2019s almost that bad. <\/p>\n

The province\u2019s only social housing program was slashed in half last week in the Liberal government\u2019s budget. Acc\u00e8sLogis provides 40-50 per cent of the costs to create rental housing in partnership with community groups, municipalities and private developers.<\/p>\n

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\nWith annual budgets of around $250 million, it helps create some 3,000 housing units each year, but Minister of Finance Carlos Leit\u00e3o announced only $126 million for the construction of 1,500 units, part of an overall $284 million social-housing envelope. <\/p>\n

Most of the balance\u2014$123 million\u2014will go to rent supplements, direct payments to qualifying tenants to obtain private rental housing, and another $35 million to help adapt homes for low-income families. <\/p>\n

Social housing advocates are decrying the partial shift to subsidies as a transfer of the social responsibility to create decent, affordable housing in viable communities to the private market. <\/p>\n

What Sheetal Pathak of Project Genesis finds disconcerting is that the Liberal government announced a first year\u2019s 1,500 social housing units but rent subsidies for 1,000 then 1,200 new subsidies over the next four years. \u201cThey are talking about rent subsidies for the coming years but nothing about Acc\u00e8sLogis, which tells us that they may be phasing it out.\u201d <\/p>\n

Pathak and other critics say private subsidies don\u2019t ensure quality, has no long-term gain and may actually increase rents, while building housing can stabilize rents and boost quality of private properties. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe think this is a step toward privatizing housing services with no guarantees of quality and will encourage slumlords who will not feel compelled to improve conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nCompeting with social housing for tenants compel disreputable landlords to improve their properties, but that won\u2019t be necessary says Pathak, because they have \u2018become\u2019 social housing. \u201cIn that way it is a gift.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cStudies show that subsidies put upward pressures on rents, whereas building social housing creates a societal asset.\u201d She says that the move might reflect a combination of shortsightedness and ideology, given that in the long-term, the economics and social benefits favour social housing. <\/p>\n

The government\u2019s own figures show that every social housing dollar spent generates $2.30 of wealth through employment, construction and other spinoffs, while annually saving taxpayer cash\u2014estimated at $130 million\u2014in social programs related to homelessness, seniors, the handicapped and mental illness. <\/p>\n

For the Quebec Federation of Housing Cooperatives (CQCH), cutting Acc\u00e8sLogis is incomprehensible.<\/p><\/div>\n

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\n\u201cThe need remains significant. More than 225,000 Quebec tenants spend more than 50 per cent of their income on housing,\u201d said president Jacques C\u00f4t\u00e9, adding the government should closely monitor their program over the next year for \u201cthe real social effects and economic impacts of this decision.\u201d <\/p>\n

Rental vacancies are quite low in many of Quebec\u2019s urban centres, particularly for large families\u2014about three per cent\u2014as is the dismal case of C\u00f4te des Neiges, where almost 15 per cent of tenant households spend more than 80 per cent of their income on rent, and where above-average rents meet below-average incomes. (In NDG, average rents also outpace the Montreal norm.) <\/p>\n

According to the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation only 12 private rental homes were created in the area between January 2011-September 2014, compared to 1,597 condominiums, and the vacancy rate of three-bedroom rentals in CDN stands at a dismal 1.3 per cent. <\/p>\n

Groups also fear that as vacancy rates vary from year to year, a sudden drop may prompt landlords to drop out of the program.<\/p><\/div>\n

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\n\u201cIf a landlord finds that they can charge a lot more, says Pathak, it could be really difficult to find apartments.\u201d <\/p>\n

Pathak says Project Genesis will be educating the public on the new changes and what they mean, \u201cand we\u2019ll continue to pressure the government to change their mind, if not this year then next year.
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