This is anecdata. Homeless in the USA is far, far worse.

NY has 1 in 125 homeless, 70k. Montreal has 3.1k. (1 in 1000).

Yes Montreal can do better, but as per my original point, where the poster complained about the ease of registering a new business, making your province into a great place to register a business is not the path to a great society.

https://www.bowery.org/homelessness/

https://www.homelesshub.ca/community-profile/montreal

Progress and Poverty, the top selling book behind The Bible in the 1890s has more information:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress_and_Poverty