FECHIMM is organizing an orientation symposium on "autonomy or institutionalizing of the housing cooperative movement"

FECHIMM’s orientation symposium, to be held next November 27, will be on "Autonomy or institutionalizing of the housing cooperative movement". The programming of the day remains to be completed, but participants at the symposium will certainly be invited to consider and debate the appropriate role of the Federation and all instances of movement at the dawn of the triennial meeting of the CQCH.

The relationship that our organizations have with government agencies (CMHC and SHQ) should be discussed. The orientation symposium in November will help prepare the Triennial Meeting of the Confédération québécoise des coopératives d'habitation (CQCH) scheduled for the Fall of 2011. CQCH hopes for a high cooperative turnout for this event and FECHIMM willinform its members as and when the modalities for participation become clearer.

More details to come...

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FECHIMM supports the A.P.E.L. in its organization of a symposium on the housing situation in the MRC of Deux-Montagnes and Mirabel

FECHIMM joins the Association de promotion et d’éducation en logement – APEL (Association for promotion and housing education – APEL) in order to organize a symposium on rental housing problems on the territory of the MRC of Deux-Montagnes
et the south section of the MRC of Mirabel.

During the course of 2009, the APEL has conducted a research-action on the status of rental housing on its territory. The research has confirmed that the demand for rental housing in this sector of FECHIMM’s territory exceeds the supply and that low income
people and families have far too limited access to affordable housing. There aren’t too many community and cooperative housing units. This symposium aims to identify solutions that will address issues of access to rental housing and encourage the widest consultation possible to achieve them.

The NPO APEL is dedicated to defending the rights of tenants, to the promotion and the development of social housing in the area that comprises the MRC Deux-Montagnes and the southern part of the MRC Mirabel. APEL also distributes information and holds
education activities for tenants and landlords. The organization also supports and assists community organizations whose users are affected by issues of housing.