2023-07-11 18:30:18
A family in Montreal, who let their children live in housing filled with mold, was reported by its landlord to the DPJ, which retained the reports.
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This extreme case of substandard housing in Montreal will cost the owner $50,000 to renovate it.
The parents and their three young children left their apartment on the sly recently. They lived for regarding 4 years in the accommodation which cost $725 per month. They paid their rent, but their lifestyle which made the place miserable and uninhabitable, according to the owner of the premises.
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Photos of the four and a half obtained by TVA Nouvelles show the accommodation in perfect condition at the time of the rental, 4 years ago. It has become over the months an unsanitary and moldy apartment.
A nauseating odor invaded the other accommodations. The neighbors complained. It was on seeing the inventory that the manager made reports to the DYP.
“The tenant was drying his laundry on the cabinet doors, the wet towels. He told me he never used the hood. There were three children [qui vivaient là] and the youngest was six months old. Me, I have a six-month-old child at home, and I said to myself: I would never let my child sleep, or live in that dirt, that rot,” vigorously denounces the owner.
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For its part, CORPIQ denounces the rule that prevents the owner from increasing the rent following having invested a colossal sum to renovate it.
“Today, we find ourselves in front of an owner who will take at least 20 years to find the beginning of the money he must invest in housing for which the government and its rules will force him to re-let it. for 725$ […] clause G, since its introduction, has never made sense. It forces landlords between two tenants to re-let at the same price,” lamented the spokesperson for the Corporation of Quebec Property Owners (CORPIQ), Marc-André Plante.
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Nicole Cliche who represents employees of the DPJ (SPTSSS) at the union level–CSN), explains that interventions following reports for cases of unsanitary conditions involving children are commonplace.
“It happened several times that we intervened at this level. However, Quebec has abolished baby alerts, which allowed people worried regarding the arrival of a child in a risky living environment to report their apprehensions to the DPJ as soon as they are pregnant. We find it worrying to see that babies are going to be born in difficult conditions, ”explains Ms. Cliche.
The baby alert is a practice deemed “discriminatory once morest certain groups”, and would contribute to their “overrepresentation in the youth protection system”, indicated last spring the office of the minister responsible for social services, Lionel Carmant.
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Instead, the government announced the establishment of a “plan of preventive and intensive services during the prenatal period”, which will make it possible “to ensure tight and proactive supervision from pregnancy when a child is likely to be born in a family context at high risk of abuse,” the statement read.
Called to react, the office of the Minister of Housing says it is listening to the concerns of owners of apartment buildings.
“There will be the parliamentary committee this fall and we will listen to the solutions and constructive proposals that groups, organizations and others can submit to us for discussion,” it says.
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