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Housing advocates says they’re deeply disappointed by the revised plan for Lansdowne Park, which eliminates an affordable housing component in favour of a one-time, $3.9-million payment to the City of Ottawa.
Edward Roué, chair of the Central Ottawa ACORN community organization, said the deal as proposed should be rejected by city council. Under the revised Lansdowne 2.0 plan released Friday, the number of residential units to be built on the site will be reduced to 770 from 1,200, with one of three towers from the initial proposal eliminated.
The city’s largest social housing provider, Ottawa Community Housing, was involved in negotiations that led to the agreement. Using that formula, Menard said, the city should receive $9.75 million for the Lansdowne development, not $3.9 million. Joseph Ostrovsky, a board member of the advocacy group Make Housing Affordable, said he was disappointed the new Lansdowne proposal cut the overall number of units. Governments, he argued, should not slow down or downsize housing construction in an effort to make developers finance social housing.
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