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Over 70 Montreal households in emergency housing as affordability in city gets worse
The city says emergency rooms and hotel units are free for two months as affordability worsens and more tenants struggle to find permanent housing.
- A little over a week after Quebec's unofficial moving day, 71 households in Montreal remain in emergency housing, nearly double the 40 households in that situation last year.
- Jayne Malenfant, assistant professor at McGill University, attributes this surge to a housing market increasingly focused on investment rather than providing homes, alongside "moral judgment and stigma" around poverty.
- Across Quebec, 1,724 households are staying in temporary housing or receiving provincial assistance, while Montreal's affordability has deteriorated despite national improvement, according to RBC Economics.
- Rouzier Métellus, director of Montreal's housing authority, explained municipal emergency accommodations remain free for two months while the authority helps households search for permanent housing.
- Véronique Laflamme, spokesperson for a non-profit housing rights organization, emphasized that permanent solutions including social housing are urgently needed, as most vacant units remain unaffordable for struggling tenants.
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A little more than a week after the unofficial day of moving to Quebec, 71 households are still in emergency housing in Montreal, slightly more than twice last year, where 40 households were in this situation.
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Over 70 Montreal households in emergency housing as affordability in city gets worse
MONTREAL - A little over a week after Quebec's unofficial moving day, 71 households in Montreal remain in emergency housing — almost twice as many last year when there 40 in that situation.
·Winnipeg, Canada
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