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Chomedey, Laval des Rapides and Pont Viau seniors hardest hit<\/b><\/i>
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\nBy Robert Frank<\/b>
\nwww.thesuburban.com<\/a><\/p>\n

The Parti au Service du citoyen (PSC) sounded the alarm last week about Laval’s rising poverty rate, and has announced that it will adopt concrete measures to stem the city’s growing inequality, if it is elected to city hall, Nov. 3. <\/p>\n

\u201cAlthough Laval’s considered to be prosperous, poverty affects a big chunk of the population,\u201d indicated PSC leader Robert Bordeleau. \u201cWhile poverty can be found throughout the city, some districts like Chomedey, Laval des Rapides and Point Viau are particularly hard hit.\u201d <\/p>\n

Increasingly, the face of poverty is the face of the Laval’s rapidly increasing ranks of the elderly, he told reporters during a news conference, Sept. 26. <\/p>\n

\u201cOf the thousands of Laval residents who find themselves in dire financial straits, a a large proportion of them are senior citizens. Despite many forms of government aid, nearly 45 per cent of Laval residents aged 65 or older have income worth only $10,000-$20,000.\u201d <\/p>\n

That meager income is directly tied to ill health, he said. <\/p>\n

\u201cOur aging population is therefore an important factor in our war on poverty and social ostracism,\u201d Bordeleau declared. <\/p>\n

He proposed a three-pronged counterattack. <\/p>\n

\u201cFirst is to act on the economic front and ensure that this is a priority for local economic development agencies. Second is to allocate 3 per cent of current property taxes to the city’s organizations and community centres to provide services that Laval residents can count on, in times of need.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFinally, PSC proposes to set up a special fund to build affordable social housing for low-income and special needs households, including the shomeless, the elderly and the handicapped, among other,\u201d Bordeleau concluded. \u201cThis initiative would mostly comprise federal and provincial funding.\u201d<\/p>\n

PSC also intends to force Laval’s thriving property developers to set aside 15 per cent of their residential projects for affordable social housing. As reported two weeks ago in The Suburban,<\/i> Laval led Quebec in house price increases during the past year.<\/p>\n

Bordeleau’s party also wants to revamp the city’s housing code to ensure that Laval’s inventory of residences continue to provide \u201cclean and decent locales\u201d.<\/p>\n

PSC said in a statement that it also intends to open public hearings on Laval’s social conditions and quality of life. The consultation would be headed by PSC candidates Carole Grenier (St. Martin) and \u00c9ric Heuser (Concorde-Bois des Filion), if they are elected to city council next month.<\/p>\n

The party also announced its plan to set up an Elders Council under the chairmanship of another PSC city council hopeful, Jean-Jacques l’Heureux (Vimont), with Gilbert Lalonde (Val des Arbres) mooted as vice-chairman.<\/p>\n

As The Suburban<\/i> reported, Sept. 18, fresh figures from the 2011 census revealed that poverty pockets abound in the parts of Laval where most non-francophones reside.
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\nAllophone and Anglophone populations are concentrated where Statistics Canada’s map located Laval’s lowest-income\u2014and fastest-growing\u2014districts. (Source: Statistics Canada)<\/b><\/div>\n

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