The first instalment of the Montreal Gazette’s “Fixing Montreal” series opens with the deaths of two unhoused people in Montreal, prompting Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada to call on all levels of government to act, while Julien Montreuil of L'Anonyme warned that society is “a machine for creating homelessness.” Per a 2025 count, homelessness in Quebec rose 20% since 2022 to more than 12,000 people, including over 5,000 in Montreal, where the shelter network of about 2,400 places is regularly at capacity. In Ville-Marie, overnight stays at a local organization climbed from 165 to more than 1,500 compared with four years earlier, showing the crisis spreading to smaller regions. Tensions with residents have risen in neighbourhoods with many front-line services, and the Notre-Dame St. encampment swelled to over 150 people in about 200 tents this summer. The article argues that Montreal cannot solve the issue alone and that the Quebec government must act.
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