{"id":914974,"date":"2026-09-30T05:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T05:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/914974\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T05:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T05:54:12","slug":"montreal-housing-advocates-occupy-vacant-building-to-push-issue-into-election-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/914974\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal housing advocates occupy vacant building to push issue into election campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Montreal housing advocates have occupied a vacant apartment building in the city\u2019s Sud-Ouest borough, saying they will stay until at least election night in an effort to push the housing crisis onto the campaign agenda. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The occupation began Monday evening in a rundown three-storey building across from the Lachine Canal. The protest is organized by the Coalition contre le logement cher, a network of 130 housing groups across Quebec.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe goal is to convey the message as powerfully as possible,\u201d said Francis Dolan, an organizer with a Pointe-St-Charles tenants\u2019 rights group. \u201cThe scale of the housing crisis deserves more than the few minutes allotted during the leaders\u2019 debates.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Montreal housing advocates have occupied a vacant apartment building in the city\u2019s Sud-Ouest borough, saying they will stay&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":914975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,120789,66],"class_list":["post-914974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-quebec-elections","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914974","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=914974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/914975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}