Always more households without housing in Quebec, notes the

At least 1899 tenant households were still without accommodation from yesterday in Quebec, underlined Thursday morning the Popular Action Front in Urban Recentment (FRAPRU) which presented its post 1 balance sheet^is July.

According to data compiled by the Quebec Housing Company (SHQ), which lists the number of households that contacted a housing research service, 211 households more than this date last year ended up in this situation this summer.

Which confirms, according to the spokesperson for Weather in FrapruVéronique Laflamme, that the situation of many tenants continues to deteriorate in the context of housing crisis that has been raging in Quebec for several years now.

Currently, 425 households accompanied by a help service have been declared in temporary accommodation with relatives or in temporary housing provided by a municipality.

If we compare the requests for help received from last Friday, versus last night, there were more than 300 additional calls. We see that the requests for help continue to be made. It is important that tenants call for help to be able to receive concrete measuressaid Ms. Laflamme.

Temporary accommodation lies down

In addition to their higher number, Montreal data also show that households without homes are increasingly taking housing.

There is no data on a provincial scale, but last year in Montreal the duration was more than 80 days for families and people hosted by the citysaid the spokesperson for Weather in Frapru at a press conference.

These are people who, today, may not be on the sidewalk, but who live a very very great insecurity and do not know when, and where, they and they will have a permanent housing solution.

But the figures do not say everything, warns Ms. Laflamme, which recalls that the data of the intraperitoneal Only identify households that have come forward to housing research services.

There are people who have not reported themselves, there are people who have only known in the very last days that there were aid measures offered. Several go to relatives and, in the coming days, they will no longer have a plan B.

The importance of tenant assistance services

Emphasizing the importance of supporting all these households without housing to avoid further aggravating roaming, the Weather in Frapru welcomed the efforts of the Quebec Housing Society which has been financed for three years around forty housing research services.

We are relieved that the Quebec government is funding such housing research services and we see that needs are year -round. So we have to perpetuate them. And above all we must ensure that all tenants who find themselves in a temporary situation are actively accompanied all the time it takes to be relocatedargues the spokesperson for Weather in Frapru.

Over -price rents

With regard to the situation of rental housing in 2025, despite a slight increase in the vacation rate and an increase in the construction of rental housing, affordability remains the main obstacle to housing.

There is an extremely rapid increase in [coût du] Average rent in Quebecis alarmed the Weather in Frapru.

Again yesterday, a tenant from Hochelaga-Maisonneuve sent us a photo of a housing for rent, 2 bedrooms: $ 2100.

With such high rents, tenants are also much less inclined to move, notes the organization.

What led us to current inaccordability is not the result of political choices. But it is the result of political non-choicessaid Véronique Laflamme, which recalls that the governments had been warned a good time that was already heading for a housing crisis.

In 2016, the Committee on Economic and Sociocultural Rights of theHim said there was a shortage of social housing in Quebec and Canada. The problem was knownrecalled Ms. Laflamme.

The Weather in Frapru Recalls that during the 2021 census, the median income of all the tenants in Quebec was $ 48,400 and that already, at the time, nearly 373,000 Quebec tenant households devoted more than 30 % of their income to find accommodation.

In 2021, the Quebec minister responsible for the housing, Andrée Laforest, assured that Quebec was “not at all in a housing crisis situation”.