“I’ve never been able to put money aside,” she said. “And now it’s kind of like my retirement plan involves living in my co-op.”
Miller was among hundreds of co-op residents and supporters who gathered outside Quebec’s Housing Ministry offices in downtown Montreal on Monday to demand the provincial government withdraw the legislation.
“The CAQ government is a government of landlords, which is not acting to improve the lot of tenants. It is even contributing to making it worse,” said Eva Garrido of the Castelnau-Casgrain co-operative, one of the organizers of the rally.
Introduced in February by then housing minister Caroline Proulx, Bill 20 would overhaul the income thresholds generally used to determine who can enter affordable housing and co-operatives.
Now, residents are not forced out if their financial situation later improves. But Bill 20 would change that, introducing financial penalties for some residents whose income rises above thresholds that have not yet been determined.
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