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there has been no official communication with the former tenants since then, as the building continues to languish. a cbc report last year stated there was a fire in the building in 2015.
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in a report filed this year, auditor general andrée cossette said nearly 24,000 people were on a waiting list for social housing.
hénault-ratelle said he is concerned that with so many buildings in a pitiful state, more will be evacuated and left to languish like habitations chester. in june, the rivière-des-prairies social housing building habitations marie-victorin was evacuated by the omhm because it was in a poor state. it has not been repaired yet.
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joel debellefeuille is the founder and executive director of the red coalition , which works to eliminate racial profiling and systemic racism in canada. he said he believes racism helps explain why the habitations chester building has languished for so long.
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lazar said the city’s housing department has hundreds of vacant units, including dozens in côte-des-neiges—notre-dame-de-grâce. he volunteers on the board of a social housing organization called project chance , which operates 24 units reserved for single mothers going back to school. those units have been empty since problems were noted with the building’s heating system in 2019.
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