Far from the $ 1,317 paid on average for the same size of housing in Montreal, Rimouski still largely exceeds certain large cities in the regions. For a four and a half room apartment, it costs $ 674 in Sorel-Tracy or $ 626 in Trois-Rivières.
To reach its conclusions, the RCLALQ analyzed nearly 250 housing ads on Kijiji from February 21, 2020 to May 27, 2020.
Average rent for accommodation for rent in Rimouski
- Studio : 515 $
- 3 and ½: $ 570
- 4 and ½: $ 733
- 5 and ½ and over: $ 873
Source: Survey on the price of housing for rent in Quebec (RCLALQ)
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One of the purposes of the survey was to demonstrate that the data from the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC), which sets most rent subsidies, is not representative of reality.
According to CMHC, for all the markets that have a rental housing vacancy rate of 3%, there is a housing shortage. So yes, we are better than elsewhere in Quebec. But it is because elsewhere in Quebec, things are very bad. That does not mean that things are going well in Rimouski.
Alexandre Cadieux, speaker at the Rimouski-Neigette Housing Committee, maintains that the vacancy rate has gone from 3.7 to 2.6% in one year in Rimouski. This could lead to an even higher price spike in the future.
We are looking at how it has evolved in Rimouski, and we are afraid that in the coming years, we will be heading towards a situation similar to cities like Saint-Hyacinthe, Val-d’Or, Saint-Jérôme or Lévis which are in much more difficult situations than we currently
, explains Alexandre Cadieux.
Social housing in Rimouski.
Photo: Radio-Canada
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Should we keep a rent register?
The Rimouski-Neigette Housing Committee, as well as several other similar groups in Quebec, requests, among other things, a public rent register.
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, pleads the spokesperson for RCLALQ Maxime Roy-Allard.
If we added the price of the rent to the RL-31 slip, we would practically have a low-cost Quebec registry overnight. It would be maintained automatically, because the owners have to fill it every year.
Maxime Roy-Allard, spokesperson for the RCLALQ
Photo: Radio-Canada
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These groupings also call for the introduction of a mandatory rent control which would force landlords to follow the recommendations of rent increases published each year by the Régie du logement.
We need to allow investors to make leasing attractive. Because right now, investors and builders are making condos, and something other than income properties. So we do end up with a shortage.
These suggestions were immediately rejected by the Quebec Landlords Association (APQ). The current law is already sufficient. It adequately protects tenants. […] It is not by creating a register that we will improve the supply of housing
, says Jean-Olivier Reed, spokesperson for theAPQ.
To date, RCLALQ’s requests have remained unanswered.
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