Formerly managed byNPO the retirement home, now dissolved, the Faubourg Mena’Sen passed into private hands last February. The $18 million from the sale was divided among the members of theNPOwho have not yet made decisions about the use of these funds according to the lawyer of theNPOSerge Dubois.
It’s worrying, it’s worrying
admitted the Prime Minister during a press conference in Magog. It is an organization that was initially funded by the federal government, but it is a non-profit organization […] It seems that this NPO made a profit of $18 million selling this asset.
François Legault, however, did not specify who will be responsible for this investigation.
I asked my people to see who is best placed to investigate. We will find someone in the government who is capable of carrying out a full investigation. […] We’re going to get to the bottom of things.
” I want to know where that $18 million went. I am sure that we will also have the cooperation of the federal government to carry out all the necessary investigations in order to find out what happened. »
Me Serge Dubois, affirmed yesterday that not only the sale was not only legal, but moral. What the Prime Minister does not support.
Yes [c’est immoral]. It is a non-profit organization. You have to know what happened with the profit, let’s see!
did he declare.
François Legault also stressed that he was going to analyze how to tighten the mechanisms so that this type of problem does not occur elsewhere in Quebec.
We’ll see what we can do […] We know that there is a lack of housing. We want it to stay housing [abordables] as much as possible
he mentioned.
Questions also from Sherbrooke
The municipal councilor of the district of Pin-Solitaire in Sherbrooke, Hélène Dauphinais, is not convinced either by the arguments of Serge Dubois, who maintains that the transaction was made according to the rules of the art. The counselor wonders how the administrators were able to sell the complex without giving the money to non-profit organizations (NPOs).
The counsellor, who is also president of the Finance and Administration Committee, however finds it hard to understand the decision taken by the members of the establishment’s board of directors. A NPO has the right to sell, but afterwards, when it dissolves, it must donate the money to nonprofits that have a similar mission
she said at the microphone of Here the info.
Remember that last March, the administrators of La Cité des Retraites repealed the clause obliging them to hand over the remaining property to organizations with similar or similar objectives in the event of dissolution.
Something has to happen. It cannot be that individuals arrive as volunteers on NPO, that they sell a project that is a success like the Cité des Retirés was, and that after that they pocket the money. Let’s see, what is this?
? she wondered.
” We have had no news as to whether there are any NPO who received money. »
Hélène Dauphinais also believes that there must be an investigation. She herself is evaluating the idea, with the mayor’s office, of filing a complaint.
An Inconvenient Loss of Affordable Housing
Like François Legault, it is not only the lack of transparency of the transaction that revolts Hélène Dauphinais. She also deplores the loss of affordable housing in the hands of the private sector.
The first thing that bothers me is that we had 172 units that were in the social housing stock. That, social housing, is housing managed by non-profit organizations, cooperatives or municipal housing offices. […] Suddenly, it ends up in the private sector and we know that in two, three or five years, it will no longer be affordable housing. It’s going to be housing at market price
she believes.
Hélène Dauphinais argues that this loss of social housing will also hurt the City of Sherbrooke, already struggling with the housing crisis.
This year, we are going to put $4 million of money from Sherbrooke residents to try to develop social housing and that $4 million, in addition to money from other levels of government, will not even allow us to put $200 units on the market. There, all of a sudden, individuals decide to withdraw 172 dwellings from the collective sphere to the private sphere. It’s revolting.
Reference-ici.radio-canada.ca