McGill research underpins legal reform project aimed at preventing homelessness in Quebec
“The statistics of homelessness in Quebec have been getting progressively and, I would argue, catastrophically worse,” declared Pearl Eliadis, an Associate Professor (Professional) at McGill’s Max Bell School of Public Policy. “Between 2018 and 2022, homelessness went up by 44 per cent, with further increases every year. Clearly, what we’re doing right now is not working.”
Outside McGill, Eliadis is a practising lawyer specializing in human rights and a member of the Quebec Homelessness Prevention Collaborative (QHPC). McGill University and Montreal’s Old Brewery Mission co-founded the QHPC in 2021; since then, it has grown to include over 20 partner organizations – housing, homeless and First Nations advocacy groups, along with researchers from several Quebec universities.