Housing / Logement

Photo du jour: Suburban Towers

Apartment towers in the borough of Saint-Laurent, on Côte-Vertu near Lebeau.

Photo du jour : Wolfe vs. Montcalm

Le Maire ne veut pas que vous quittiez Montréal. Ainsi, la question se pose: rue Wolfe à Montréal rue Montcalm à Rosemère Laquelle choisiriez-vous ?

Montreal’s disappearing rooming houses

Rooming houses on Tupper Street, in Shaughnessy Village After being viewed for decades as a symptom of urban decay, there is today a movement to recognise...

Photo du jour – Square Viger

Photo du jour: Row houses

Victorian row houses on Tupper Street, in Shaughnessy Village.

Photo du jour: Public housing; public art

A mural in Villeray on the side of Les Habitations Saint-Georges, a public housing complex for the elderly. Created by Dominique Desbiens of MU Art in...

Urban cottages

Country-style house on Berri near Boucher, in the Plateau. As time passes cities’ built environments change with the arrival of new technologies...

Mile End Memories

Mile End Memories is a non-profit organization in Montreal raising awareness about the area’s unique cultural heritage and history. Architect Susan...

A Hasidic exodus from Outremont and Mile End?

The Gazette reported this weekend that the Hasidic community in Outremont and Mile End is suffering from a housing shortage. In 2002, there were about...

The right scale?

Earlier this week, Montreal’s city council approved the development of two 32-storey Waldorf-Astoria hotel and condominium towers near the corner of Guy...

How would a National Housing Strategy impact our cities?

by Emma Feltes, cross-posted from Spacing Atlantic HALIFAX — National Housing  Day was first marked on the calendar by a team of Toronto housing advocates...

État d’urgence

Arguably the biggest public space event of the year. Montreal-based arts collective ATSA (Action Terroriste Socialement Acceptable) is hosting État...