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\u002Dtime, $3.9 million payment to the city.
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.
“The original deal was not great to start with and this is much worse,” Roué argued. “To me, if the city accepts this, it shows they’re not taking the housing crisis seriously. The place to start solving that crisis is on land that the city owns.” The city’s private partner in the development, Ottawa Sports and Entertainment Group, originally said 10 per cent of the units would be affordable, but that idea has been shelved in favour of an upfront payment of $3.9 million. That money represents 10 per cent of the $39 million the city estimates it will receive for selling air and subterranean rights for the Lansdowne towers and their underground garages.
Even worse, he said, the staff report asks council to waive requirements of the Affordable Housing Land and Funding Policy, which says 25 per cent of proceeds should go into the city’s affordable housing coffers whenever it sells public land for private residential development. In an analysis of the revised Lansdowne 2.0, Capital Ward Coun. Shawn Menard classifies the abandonment of affordable housing as an “ugly” element of the proposal.According to the staff report, affordable housing at Lansdowne is 20 per cent more expensive to build than elsewhere in the city. Using the $3.9 million to develop affordable housing in other neighbourhoods, staff said, will offer more affordable units for less money.
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