A lot of people are suffering homelessness due to the rising cost in house rant in Canada’s real estate markets.

According to reports, tens of thousands have started sleeping in a cemetery and on the street of Canada, which remains a top destination for immigrants and refugees.

The number of homeless people in Quebec rose by 44 per cent between 2018 and 2022, reaching 10,000 last year.

India Times said indigenous people, who make up 5% of the Canadian population, are overrepresented in the streets, particularly Inuit, according to a director of a local anti-poverty organisation, Karine Lussier.

“In Granby alone, we need at least 1,000 affordable housing units,” Lussier said.

Report revealed that some people have been living in a temporary camp in a cemetery in Granby, a town of 70,000 people 80 kilometres (50 miles) east of Montreal.

One of the affected persons, Danny Brodeur-Cote has been living in a temporary camp in a cemetery in Granby, for months after being evicted from an apartment he shared with his girlfriend in June.

“I work five days a week,” he said. “What little housing there is is much too expensive,” he stated.

Mayor of Granby, Julie Bourdon said, “Visible homelessness did not exist three years ago in Granby, [but] rents are very high now compared to two years ago.”

Rather than destroying the camps and transferring the residents, the city chose to keep what it called “places of tolerance.”

Despite the difficulties Canadians have with housing and rent, the North American country is still receiving immigrants all over the world, especially Nigerians.