Burnt out: How fire displaces Montreal tenants

On one block in Verdun, tenants were displaced from four adjacent rental buildings, following two fires in the span of a few months in 2024. Since then, two of the buildings have been converted to undivided condos. Some tenants from another building have been struggling to hang onto their claim to apartments they haven’t been able to live in. Housing advocates worry that building fires are leading to permanent displacement of tenants, reshaping neighbourhoods in the process.