Explore detailed statistics that highlight pressing housing challenges in Quebec, from the increase in forced evictions to the shortage and cost of rental housing.
The RCLALQ reports:
That there are several tens of thousands ofevictions forced each year in Quebec, or 90,900 cases in 2023.
That the tactics of renovictions and undue pressure are on the rise more than meteorically (intimidation, harassment, lease purchase)
The FRAPRU reports:
That there is a worsening of the rental housing shortage (1.7 % of unoccupied rental housing across Quebec)
That there is a rapid increase in rents (13 % in two years 2020-2022)
That households must cut back on basic needs (food), in order to be able to pay the rent.
That the hardest hit categories are single people, women, young people aged 15 to 24 and people aged 65 and over.
That 107,535 tenant households live in homes in need of major repairs and 98,765 tenant households live in overcrowded housing. THE Indigenous and the people with an immigrant background are severely affected.
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