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How can Quebec get a duplicate accommodation for non-profit rental accommodation 20%? In the field of housing cooperatives, many believe you have to increase: unite resources, hire professionals, and buy or build. The Housing Manager wants to encourage the transformation responsible for both CO -OXS for both OSBL.

In Longueuil, La visual housing cooperatives will buy 21 homes building in Greenfield Park in July. He will then have 205 homes in 24 buildings.

Clearly without a fusion of our Coops, we couldn’t do this purchaseSébastien Côté-garand explained the Vice-President of the Board of Directors.

Negotiation with private owner lasted more than a year and the project will cost a total of $ 5 million. The worker takes to manage that, not only volunteersAdds Mr. Côté-garand.

Three housing cooperatives gathered in 2018 to train sight, then one or two were added every year. Nine cooperatives are now to have their own common resources, which allows the general manager, coordinator and the use of a complete administration assistant.

CA can focus on sight and governance for the perception of Errent, rather than managing all the conflicts and maintenance between tenantsNotes Sébastien Côté-garand is also a tool advisor, an organization specializing in real estate with social impact. He prevented some co-cups from closing, due to lack of volunteers.

The team also allows economic scales. In 2022, for example, the drains around fifteen buildings changed in the same year, reduced the total bill about $ 300,000. Accounting verification costs $ 10,000, while nine coages paid $ 4,000 in advance.

Encourage the consolidation

Cheap Housing Corporate Alliance in Quebec (Purchasing) Militates in Militates to establish and professionalize without manufacturing, orAsbl. This is a good time to launch social debate, a housing crisis and the needs that growHe said his General Manager, Sébastien Parent-Durand.

This group has 25 members, most large, such as Angus development company, useful (to implement student housing), drive and stuck. The vast majority of the sector, however, is made up of smaller organizations. Quebec does not own 2,550 owners for a total of 160,000 homes, an average of 63 homes.

The community sector is often missing and is lack of specialization. He eats raw in front of private developers. You must use the same private promoters while maintaining the social missionSébastien Parent-Durand says. Believes that organizations must be five times less as a result of fusion Volunteers.

Austria provides as an example, with a similar population in Quebec. They are nearly millions of millions of Austria, 182 unmarried in the hands of owners. They build about 16,000 homes a year, in Quebec’s 2000. Having more influence and they get much more to build with Quebec’s similar public investments.

Government’s vision

View viewPurchase Find the echo in Quebec. It’s music for my earsComments in a telephone conversation House in charge. There are too many organizations! Everyone needs to do their financial situations, management committees, maintenance contracts … and, clearly not all accounting and management specialists.

He doesn’t have any intention, For nowAs the merger is made by France, organizations with less than 12,000 homes had to re-collect in 2021. I will put ways to do things that will encourage organizations to re-collect.

Project calls will only be open Qualified promotersFor example, that can exclude small organizations. This is not the end of small housing projects, but they need to carry relatively strong groupsDuranceeau determines the minister. It also intends to present an invoice on the invoice to smooth the rules about fusion.

Leave organizations to decide

The COOPERATIVE COOPERATIVE CONFEDERATION (CQCH) seeks a fixed movement while the team remains voluntary. It must come from the needs and strategy of cooperativesHe said the Director General of the Organization representing 825 of the 1300 Cooperative Residences of Quebec.

He thinks that half of the cooperatives will continue to be independent, because they often go very well and satisfy the needs of members. But there is more and more openings. Have to trust and helpThinks Mrs. Turgeon.

A Cqch want to see By the relevant, at least developers cooperatives. There are already two Sherbrooke (Eastern Cantonings and Left edge), Montreal (Cloverdale) and Longueuilen (Visionary). It strengthens existing cooperes, saving those without respiration and promotes purchases and constructionsExplains the surprise.

For its part, the Network of Quebec Asbl He prefers bikes to talk about the pool. Housing organizations can come together to hire professionals or hire subsidy, such as for rent management or renovations.

It is a movement that has been there for several years and has positive influences in the regionNancy Croussette emphasizes, the Director General of this organization representing 1,200 Asbl. You can be one of the bus solutions, but you need to evaluate needs and go to stages.

A Weather frappru A vision is also afraid wall wall. There are very small health and large organizations, where tenants are not goodVéronique Laflamme warned.

It is especially afraid of increasing this, the organization moves away from members and loses social mission. It is important to keep the community aspect and tenants under home conditions.

Discourses on the importance of professionalization of this sector react to Mrs. Laflamme a lot: There are already professionals in the community, in OBNL management. As for smaller numbers or organizations, they work with external resources.

Use existing buildings as a lever

There is a problem, regardless of the structure: that it is funding. Shopping, Coops and Obnl It would like to use existing buildings as a leverage to obtain financial institutional loans. However, it is much easier than doing.

Logis access is a problemThe Duranceau is acknowledged. Agreements signed as part of this financing program in 2023 Asbl Use the value of the buildings as a lever, even to pay them largely.

We will open conventions in one case – the basis of professional organizations in the basis for the development of equity to develop equityIt explains Mrs. Duranceau that determines that discussions are already used with some organizations.