Pauline Marois backs June 2027 homelessness summit call
Thirty personalities and public figures, with pauline marois at the center of the appeal, are calling on Quebec political parties to commit to a major national homelessness summit by June 2027. The request comes as Quebec’s homelessness response is described as lacking coordination and as visible homelessness kept climbing across the province.
On 15 April 2025, the first results of the count estimated 12,077 people in visible homelessness in Quebec, 1,873 more people than in 2022. The estimate was a little more than a 20 percent increase in three years, a rise that puts pressure on ministries, municipalities, community organizations, and frontline workers already being pushed to exhaustion.
Quebec parties face June 2027 pledge
The signatories are asking Quebec political parties to make a solemn commitment before the next general election to hold a major national summit on homelessness by June 2027. The demand is specific: not a general promise to act, but a date-driven commitment to bring political parties, public institutions, and community actors into the same framework before the campaign begins.
That call lands in a province where responses remain fragmented across ministries, municipalities, networks, and organizations. Quebec and municipalities have adopted a national policy and action plans on homelessness, yet the text says those tools have not produced the coordination needed to match the scale of the problem.
Visible homelessness reaches 12,077
The count’s first results put the visible homeless population at 12,077 people on 15 April 2025. The comparison with 2022 shows the pace of change: 1,873 more people, which the text says amounts to a little more than a 20 percent increase in three years.
The numbers sit alongside a more immediate warning from the text: homelessness is spreading to cities and neighborhoods that did not expect it, and some people recently died on the streets in Montreal. Those details push the issue beyond policy design and into day-to-day safety for people sleeping outside, moving through shelters, or leaving institutions without stable housing.
Montreal deaths sharpen pressure
The appeal also connects homelessness to housing, mental health, addictions, poverty, uprooting, family breakdown, leaving youth centers, hospitals, and prisons, income security, neighborhood coexistence, and human dignity. That list shows why the call for a summit is framed as national rather than municipal: the pressures run through several systems at once, while the current response is spread too thin to function as one plan.
For people working on the front line, the immediate question is not whether Quebec has policy language on paper. It is whether political parties will accept the June 2027 commitment before the next general election and turn a scattered response into a single national table that can deal with the growing count, the provincial spread, and the deaths now being felt in Montreal.
