Opponents, including the local board of trade, are calling for Montreal’s housing bylaw to be scrapped at least temporarily.

Attendees were not impressed as city council’s housing committee held a public hearing Friday in conjunction with the release of a report on the two-year-old bylaw, the Montreal Gazette reported. The report says the bylaw could eventually produce more than 900 social, affordable and family housing units per year.

However, no such units have been built thus far. Citing high costs, developers have opted to pay fines or release properties to the city instead.

The Board of Trade of Metropolitan called for the city to suspend the application of the bylaw and “find a well-calibrated solution that is based on the funds made available by the governments of Canada and Quebec.” Julien Hénault-Ratelle, a councillor with the Ensemble Montreal opposition party, wants the city to suspend the bylaw for the time it takes to make changes in the current economic context in Montreal.”

In August, Ensemble Montreal called on the city to incentivize developers.