Quebec Affordable Housing Program (QAHP) — Component 3: Highly Prefabricated Multi-Unit Housing Initiative

• The project presentation
• The financial assistance application
• The project implementation schedule
• The board of directors resolution
• The municipality’s letter of interest
• The Revenu Québec attestation

Who is eligible?

• Cooperatives
• Non-profit organizations
• Any other person, trust, partnership, or group of persons legally constituted and registered in the Québec enterprise register

Who is not eligible

• Natural persons
• Applicants that defaulted on obligations linked to previous financial assistance from the SHQ in the two years before the application
• Public establishments, private contracted establishments, or intermediate resources

Eligible expenses

• Costs related to acquiring the immovable and related fees, or to the capitalization of the emphyteutic rent, up to the value of the immovable
• Project preparation and development expenses, including permits
• Professional fees for studies and reports, design, and monitoring of the works
• Construction costs related to the residential part of the project, including labour, materials, technological acquisition, control material, and standard land development
• Interest on development financing and interim financing for up to 48 months

Ineligible Costs and Activities

• Furniture or household appliances for dwellings other than the chambre typology
• Dishware, utensils, kitchen accessories, bedding, cleaning products, and maintenance products
• Work related to adapting a dwelling
• Work to bring aqueduct and sewer services to the land
• Expenses related to contractors registered in the RENA

• Guarantee and potential for delivery
• Financing structure
• Presence of issues related to housing creation
• Community support and site quality

• Consult the program’s normative framework.
• Create a SHQ user account or log in with an existing account.
• Provide the information requested in the project submission platform.
• Upload all required documents to the Web platform.

• After analysis, the SHQ selects the projects that best meet the evaluation criteria and the program objectives.
• The selected applicant receives a letter of selection and then, after full analysis, a final acceptance letter.
• The project must then be covered by a convention de réalisation et d’exploitation between the SHQ and the applicant before construction starts.
• For selected projects, the SHQ matches the applicant with a selected design-builder and acts as an intermediary.
• The applicant must then sign the conception-construction contract with the matched design-builder.

• The program is structured into four components, including Component 3: Highly Prefabricated Multi-Unit Housing Initiative.
• For this component, no call for projects is currently open.
• Selected projects are matched with one of the selected design-builders by the Société d’habitation du Québec.
• A project selected under this component must be governed by a convention de réalisation et d’exploitation before construction starts.