Quebec Affordable Housing Program (QAHP) — Component 2: Projects for People with Special Housing Needs

• Cadre normatif du programme
• Création et utilisation d’un compte utilisateur SHQ
• Grille d’évaluation des projets
• Besoins régionaux
• Loyers maximaux

Who is eligible?

• Office d’habitation
• Organisme sans but lucratif
• Cooperative
• Entreprise du secteur privé
• Recognized postsecondary educational institution

Who is not eligible

• Personne physique
• Établissement public, établissement privé conventionné, or ressource intermédiaire, except when operating a private seniors’ residence in the stated case
• Applicant or consortium registered in the RENA

Eligible expenses

• Property acquisition costs and related fees, or the updating of emphyteutic rent up to the value of the property
• Project preparation and development expenses, including permits
• Professional fees for studies, reports, design, and construction follow-up
• Construction costs for the residential portion, including labour, materials, technological acquisition, control equipment, and standard land development
• Interest on development financing and interim financing, and standard furniture for common areas in eligible project types

Ineligible Costs and Activities

• Furniture or appliances for dwelling types other than chambre
• Dishware, utensils, kitchen accessories, bedding, cleaning products, and maintenance products
• Work related to adapting a dwelling
• Water and sewer service extensions to the land
• Costs related to contractors registered in the RENA

• Projects that best meet the identified regional needs are given priority.

• For Component 2, submit applications continuously.
• Projects must be filed through the designated web platform.
• Any person wishing to submit one or more projects must have a SHQ user account.
• If the applicant does not have a SHQ user account, they must create one.
• Before filing a project, consult the program’s normative framework and the required document list.

• All eligible projects are evaluated, and selected applicants receive a letter stating the status of the request.
• To obtain confirmation of the subsidy, the applicant must send the information requested in the selection letter and specify the project amounts within 12 months of receiving it.
• The applicant must sign a convention of realization and operation and comply with its conditions and those of the program.
• The project cannot begin until that convention is ratified.
• The selected project must meet the required standards for work and building conformity, technical requirements, rents after completion, procurement and construction methods, equal access, and sound real estate management.

• Maximum eligible incomes are established annually using Statistics Canada data.
• Maximum rents, by unit type and municipality, are adjusted each year according to Statistics Canada’s Consumer Price Index and Residential Building Construction Price Index.