This panel will address critical issues surrounding homelessness and cohabitation in urban spaces, with a focus on Montreal. Beginning the discussion by unpacking the stigma and discrimination faced by the homeless community, our panel of experts will illuminate how public discourse can uphold harmful or misguided beliefs, perpetuating unease around cohabitation. Panelists will then explain how this tension manifests both in the form of our built environment, with hostile urban planning techniques such as anti-homeless architecture, and in our political environment, with blame and responsibility shifted or evaded in the name of capitalist interests. The goal of this panel is not only to illuminate the complexity of unhoused people’s experiences, revealing the importance of compassion for social cohesion, but also to explore how root causes of the housing crisis can be tackled to pave the way for a revolutionary tomorrow which sees housing justice for all.