A new plan of urban renewal in a neighbourhood, where citizens’ voice is heard as they participate in building new housing rules.
Kamloops, BC- October 24, 1969
Contact: Maryam Soroor, Public Relations Project Coordinator at Little Burgundy, Soroorm19@mytru.ca
About Little Burgundy
- A vast plan of urban renewal started on May 1967 in the neighborhood of 14 thousand residences located in the city of Montréal.
- The first place affected is the northeast of the distract Saint Martin Blocks.
The purpose of your voice is heard movement
- A new low-rental housing development.
- Citizens address social and economic wants.
Leaders of the project
- The Responsible Public Officials For The City.
- The Minister Of Municipal Affairs In Quebec.
Citizen’s community actions.
- November 1966- July 67: citizens made their rights known and informed the coordinators and the city hall.
- August-October 67: Citizens were forming an association with a survey on expropriation.
- December 67: The community defines its aims and objectives turning administration of the new housing.
- January 68: The community calls the coordinator, and the city officials to discuss the housing.
- February and March 68: Recurring for the committee.
- At the moment we are making a study in the neighborhood on the rent scale and everything else involved in new housing.
New Rent Scale
- 25% of your income to pay 75 which the city wants.
- 18% for the lower-income, average, and for the high.