Increasing fines for substandard housing and creating a support program for evicted tenants are among a list of new campaign promises from Projet Montréal’s Luc Rabouin aimed at supporting tenants in Montreal.

If elected mayor, Rabouin is vowing to implement those measures and more to ensure “people who live here in Montreal… can stay here, live with dignity.”

Also included in Tuesday’s announcement is a plan to tax vacant housing units, with the goal of bringing them back onto the rental market. Projet Montréal estimates this would generate $21 million in revenue over three years.

In addition to fining landlords offering substandard housing and creating a support program for evicted tenants through the Administrative Housing Tribunal (TAL), Rabouin is also promising to increase municip

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