Programme d’habitation abordable Québec - Volet 3 : Initiative de multilogements hautement préfabriqués

• The applicant must operate in the real estate/housing sector.
• The applicant must be either a cooperative, a non-profit organization, or another legally constituted entity (person, trust, partnership or group) registered in the Registre des entreprises du Québec.
• The project must contribute to the objectives of the Programme d’habitation abordable Québec (PHAQ) by constructing a building or group of buildings using highly prefabricated components.
• The building must be owned by the applicant on a perpetual basis, or be subject to an emphyteusis in favour of the applicant for at least 50 years.
• The project must comply with all applicable Quebec laws and regulations, including environmental, agricultural land protection and flood-risk management rules.

Who is eligible?

• Cooperatives operating in the real estate/housing sector
• Non-profit organizations involved in real estate/housing activities
• Legally constituted and registered private entities (persons, trusts, partnerships or other groups) engaged in real estate activities

Who is not eligible

• Businesses or organizations that are not legally constituted (incorporated or otherwise formally created) according to applicable laws.
• Businesses or organizations that are not registered with the Registre des entreprises du Québec.
• Projects where the applicant will not own the building (or hold an emphyteutic lease of at least 50 years) on a permanent basis.

Eligible geographic areas

• Organizations legally constituted and registered in the province of Quebec (immatriculated in the Registre des entreprises du Québec).
• Projects located within the urban perimeter of a Quebec municipality.

• Guarantee and potential for successful completion of the housing project.
• Strength and clarity of the project’s financing structure.
• Presence and significance of local issues or barriers related to creating new housing units.
• Level of community support and overall quality and suitability of the proposed site.

• The initiative uses a collaborative design–build approach called "conception-construction en planification optimisée (CCPO)", based on predefined reference real-estate solutions (SIR) that are then slightly adapted to the site and municipal requirements.
• Projects are submitted and managed through a dedicated SHQ web platform, where each required document must be uploaded as a separate file following specific format and naming rules described in the document "Étape 1 – Dépôt de projet".
• The SHQ matches each selected applicant with one of the preselected designer-builders and acts as an intermediary for this pairing process.
• The applicant will receive a written decision on the status of their application (selected, eligible but not selected, or not eligible) within 90 business days after the end of the call for projects.