{"id":596542,"date":"2026-04-11T07:26:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T07:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/596542\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T07:26:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T07:26:52","slug":"quebec-homelessness-rising-sharply-in-regions-outside-montreal-report-finds-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/596542\/","title":{"rendered":"Quebec homelessness rising sharply in regions outside Montreal, report finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MONTR\u00c9AL \u2014 New numbers released by the Quebec government are showing that homelessness has increased across the province, with the sharpest rises outside Montreal.<\/p>\n<p>The survey conducted April 15, 2025, counted more than 12,000 people who were visibly homeless, representing an increase of about 20 per cent from the last count in October 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The Abitibi-T\u00e9miscamingue, Laurentians, C\u00f4te-Nord, Laval and Saguenay\u2014Lac-Saint-Jean regions all recorded increases of over 50 per cent. <\/p>\n<p>Those regions have also seen increases in the percentages of unhoused people who spend the night outside instead of in a shelter or hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Montreal had by far the largest number of visibly unhoused people, with 5,036, as well as the highest proportion of unhoused people per 100,000 residents.<\/p>\n<p>The survey does not include the so-called \u201chidden homeless\u201d \u2014 people who are living temporarily with a friend or relative, or in a hotel or rooming house.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 10, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTR\u00c9AL \u2014 New numbers released by the Quebec government are showing that homelessness has increased across the province,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":596543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-596542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}