With lease renewals and the upcoming moving season, several thousand
people will be victims of the housing crisis plaguing
Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean. As the newspaper Le Quotidien reported last
January: "The 2024 rental report from the Canada Mortgage and Housing
Corporation (CMHC) shows a vacancy rate of 1.3% in 2023 for the Saguenay
CMA .» (1) It is important to remember that the balance point is 3% for
the vacancy rate. In some places in the region, the situation is even
more drastic. In Saint-Félicien and Dolbeau-Mistassini (2), the vacancy
rate is 1% while in Alma it is 0.6%! In such a context, it is not
difficult to understand who benefits from all this. Landlords have the
"good game" by increasing rent prices knowing that sooner or later
someone will agree to pay because they need a roof over their head, a
fundamental right that is disappearing more and more. The famous
capitalist real estate market is bleeding us. In this system, scarcity
means increased prices and competition between people.
In Saguenay, the town hall is not doing much to counter the housing
crisis. Between the wacky project of Mayor Julie Dufour who wants to
build 1,000 housing units on land in the heart of downtown Chicoutimi
and the financial aid that is slow to arrive for the Loge m'entraide
housing cooperative project (3 ), there is not much flesh around the
bone. Meanwhile, real estate developers and landlords are having a field
day. Just look at the Horizon Development real estate project in the La
Baie sector. The developers want to build 350 new homes with rates based
on the current market price for new homes. But hey, one of the goals of
developers, apart from "hoping" to free up places in more affordable
apartments when people move to their new, less affordable apartments, is
to attract and provide apartments for workers workers (for the moment
fictitious) coming from outside the region in the case of projects (once
again fictitious) at the port of Saguenay linked to the battery sector.
The municipal councilor in the area, Jean Tremblay, takes the same
approach and is convinced that such a real estate project will
facilitate the arrival of major projects (4).
The housing crisis is helping to promote this project which will create
new free apartments, but which in reality will not be accessible to a
large part of the population because of the high prices. We need the
construction of quality, affordable housing and not yet another
apartment project whose aim is to line the pockets of 3-4 investors. The
housing crisis is not fictitious. However, in this system, housing is
just a commodity like many others whose goal is to make maximum profit
from it. A way to make money by setting "projects" in motion. Obviously,
when the goal is to make as much money as possible, low-cost housing is
not attractive to these champions of capitalism. We need paying
"projects" whose goal doesn't matter as long as the money comes in. Then
there will be other "projects" that will still bring in money and so on.
The right to housing is therefore left in the hands of "developers" and
owners with private and not collective interests. The material of the
counters and the "beautiful panoramic view" are more important than the
accessibility of housing ($) and are arguments for increasing prices.
And this is what it gives...
$500,000 per condo, who could say better?
In a popular neighborhood of Chicoutimi, Saint-Nom-de-Jésus, real estate
developers had the brilliant idea of setting in motion the construction
of luxury condominiums sold at $500,000 per unit. Another beautiful
structuring project to counter the housing crisis in Saguenay... The
condos will be built on land where there was a church not so long ago. A
building built by proletarians and which, once desecrated, housed a
skatepark, the Youth Center and five cultural organizations including
the Lyric Art Society of the Kingdom. At the time (2018), the town hall
did not want to renovate and buy the church. The infrastructure, which
was already in poor condition, obviously continued to deteriorate until
it was demolished. Instead of helping to bring this building to life
through beautiful community and cultural projects, the town hall still
leaves it in the hands of the private sector and this is what it gives:
condos for half a million in the heart of a working-class neighborhood.
. It is also difficult for such organizations to find quality and
affordable premises, which accentuates their precariousness.
Remember that it is in this same neighborhood that rooming houses fell
prey to flames a few years ago, causing the death of one person.
In Saguenay, it's free-for-all!
Between the proliferation of empty parking lots in the city center, the
deforestation of the last urban green islands, the construction of
condominiums, the loss of community and cultural environments, the
glaring lack of housing and urban sprawl in the "ecodistrict" style of
the Domaine Luxuor (subject of the next text), Saguenay has no
structuring project to ensure everyone's right to housing. It is private
developers and owners who dominate and do what they want, helped by the
City Council. The propertied class which helps each other and robs us
while the majority struggles to meet their most basic needs. That's it!
1. Solveig Beaupuy, Le Quotidien: Still not enough housing to rent in
Saguenay
2. For this same city, the increase in rent prices was 11%.
3. Remember that the La Solidarité cooperative project is for 15 housing
units, so it is not a pharaonic project to finance. Much less than the
1000 units that Julie Dufour wants to build.
4. Myriam Gauthier, Radio-Canada: 350 housing project in La Baie: work
will begin in the spring
by Collective Emma Goldman
http://ucl-saguenay.blogspot.com/2024/04/saguenay-crise-du-logement-et.html
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people will be victims of the housing crisis plaguing
Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean. As the newspaper Le Quotidien reported last
January: "The 2024 rental report from the Canada Mortgage and Housing
Corporation (CMHC) shows a vacancy rate of 1.3% in 2023 for the Saguenay
CMA .» (1) It is important to remember that the balance point is 3% for
the vacancy rate. In some places in the region, the situation is even
more drastic. In Saint-Félicien and Dolbeau-Mistassini (2), the vacancy
rate is 1% while in Alma it is 0.6%! In such a context, it is not
difficult to understand who benefits from all this. Landlords have the
"good game" by increasing rent prices knowing that sooner or later
someone will agree to pay because they need a roof over their head, a
fundamental right that is disappearing more and more. The famous
capitalist real estate market is bleeding us. In this system, scarcity
means increased prices and competition between people.
In Saguenay, the town hall is not doing much to counter the housing
crisis. Between the wacky project of Mayor Julie Dufour who wants to
build 1,000 housing units on land in the heart of downtown Chicoutimi
and the financial aid that is slow to arrive for the Loge m'entraide
housing cooperative project (3 ), there is not much flesh around the
bone. Meanwhile, real estate developers and landlords are having a field
day. Just look at the Horizon Development real estate project in the La
Baie sector. The developers want to build 350 new homes with rates based
on the current market price for new homes. But hey, one of the goals of
developers, apart from "hoping" to free up places in more affordable
apartments when people move to their new, less affordable apartments, is
to attract and provide apartments for workers workers (for the moment
fictitious) coming from outside the region in the case of projects (once
again fictitious) at the port of Saguenay linked to the battery sector.
The municipal councilor in the area, Jean Tremblay, takes the same
approach and is convinced that such a real estate project will
facilitate the arrival of major projects (4).
The housing crisis is helping to promote this project which will create
new free apartments, but which in reality will not be accessible to a
large part of the population because of the high prices. We need the
construction of quality, affordable housing and not yet another
apartment project whose aim is to line the pockets of 3-4 investors. The
housing crisis is not fictitious. However, in this system, housing is
just a commodity like many others whose goal is to make maximum profit
from it. A way to make money by setting "projects" in motion. Obviously,
when the goal is to make as much money as possible, low-cost housing is
not attractive to these champions of capitalism. We need paying
"projects" whose goal doesn't matter as long as the money comes in. Then
there will be other "projects" that will still bring in money and so on.
The right to housing is therefore left in the hands of "developers" and
owners with private and not collective interests. The material of the
counters and the "beautiful panoramic view" are more important than the
accessibility of housing ($) and are arguments for increasing prices.
And this is what it gives...
$500,000 per condo, who could say better?
In a popular neighborhood of Chicoutimi, Saint-Nom-de-Jésus, real estate
developers had the brilliant idea of setting in motion the construction
of luxury condominiums sold at $500,000 per unit. Another beautiful
structuring project to counter the housing crisis in Saguenay... The
condos will be built on land where there was a church not so long ago. A
building built by proletarians and which, once desecrated, housed a
skatepark, the Youth Center and five cultural organizations including
the Lyric Art Society of the Kingdom. At the time (2018), the town hall
did not want to renovate and buy the church. The infrastructure, which
was already in poor condition, obviously continued to deteriorate until
it was demolished. Instead of helping to bring this building to life
through beautiful community and cultural projects, the town hall still
leaves it in the hands of the private sector and this is what it gives:
condos for half a million in the heart of a working-class neighborhood.
. It is also difficult for such organizations to find quality and
affordable premises, which accentuates their precariousness.
Remember that it is in this same neighborhood that rooming houses fell
prey to flames a few years ago, causing the death of one person.
In Saguenay, it's free-for-all!
Between the proliferation of empty parking lots in the city center, the
deforestation of the last urban green islands, the construction of
condominiums, the loss of community and cultural environments, the
glaring lack of housing and urban sprawl in the "ecodistrict" style of
the Domaine Luxuor (subject of the next text), Saguenay has no
structuring project to ensure everyone's right to housing. It is private
developers and owners who dominate and do what they want, helped by the
City Council. The propertied class which helps each other and robs us
while the majority struggles to meet their most basic needs. That's it!
1. Solveig Beaupuy, Le Quotidien: Still not enough housing to rent in
Saguenay
2. For this same city, the increase in rent prices was 11%.
3. Remember that the La Solidarité cooperative project is for 15 housing
units, so it is not a pharaonic project to finance. Much less than the
1000 units that Julie Dufour wants to build.
4. Myriam Gauthier, Radio-Canada: 350 housing project in La Baie: work
will begin in the spring
by Collective Emma Goldman
http://ucl-saguenay.blogspot.com/2024/04/saguenay-crise-du-logement-et.html
_________________________________________
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