Greater Montréal housing summit opens with 20% non-market target
A Greater Montréal housing summit opens Thursday with a goal of developing a roadmap toward 20 per cent non-market rental housing by 2046.
About 450 municipal officials, housing groups and experts are expected in Montréal on Thursday for a summit focused on expanding non-market rental housing across the metropolitan region.
The Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal event runs from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at New City Gas. Its stated objective is to shape a roadmap toward making 20 per cent of Greater Montréal’s rental stock non-market housing by 2046. The CMM says the current share is about nine per cent.
Sessions are scheduled on development and infrastructure costs, financing non-market housing, density and homelessness. Organizers plan to present a proposed roadmap late in the afternoon; any resulting commitments or decisions were not yet known when this brief was published.
Sources: CMM summit program and schedule, consulted November 5, 2026; CMM background announcement, October 14, 2026.
Illustrative stock image: apartment buildings. Photo by Robert Macleod on Unsplash, used under the Unsplash License; cropped and resized.
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