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=== Montreal ===
{{Main article|Centre-Sud}}

[[File: Montréal - Centre-Sud 1.jpg|thumb|right|[[Centre-Sud]] of Montreal, overlooked by the [[Jacques Cartier Bridge]]]]
{{See also|Sexe de rue}}
The [[Centre-Sud]] neighborhood of Montreal, located directly east of [[Downtown Montreal|downtown]], has long been notorious for [[prostitution]] (particularly on [[Ontario Street (Montreal)|Ontario Street]] and Dufresne Street) as well as poverty and [[drug trafficking]] more broadly. Also, the [[Place Émilie-Gamelin]] neighborhood suffers from homelessness and blight.<ref>{{cite news|first=Dominique|last=Forget|title=Mon quartier me rend malade|url=https://lactualite.com/sante-et-science/mon-quartier-me-rend-malade/|publisher=[[L'Actualité]]|location=Montreal|date=8 May 2013|access-date=22 November 2020|language=French}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Une nuit avec Capone|url=https://www.lapresse.ca/vivre/urbania/200910/21/01-913463-une-nuit-avec-capone.php|publisher=[[La Presse (Canadian newspaper)|La Presse]]|location=Montreal|date=26 October 2009|access-date=4 January 2021|language=French}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Prostitution dans le quartier Centre-Sud: les citoyens exigent des solutions|url=https://www.tvanouvelles.ca/2002/09/18/prostitution-dans-le-quartier-centre-sud-les-citoyens-exigent-des-solutions|publisher=[[TVA Nouvelles]]|location=Montreal|date=18 September 2002|access-date=22 November 2020|language=French}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Prostitution dans le Centre-Sud de Montréal - Le groupe Stella n'apprécie pas les opérations policières|url=https://www.ledevoir.com/societe/1493/prostitution-dans-le-centre-sud-de-montreal-le-groupe-stella-n-apprecie-pas-les-operations-policieres|publisher=[[Le Devoir]]|location=Montreal|date=21 May 2002|access-date=23 January 2021|language=French}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Pute de Rue|publisher=[[:fr:Éditions des Intouchables|Éditions des Intouchables]]|author=Nadeau, Roxanne|date=24 September 2003|isbn=2-89549-119-4|language=French|url=https://www.gallimardmontreal.com/catalogue/livre/pute-de-rue-nadeau-roxanne-9782895491194}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Hôtel Jolicoeur|publisher=Self-Publication|author=Collective authors|date=January 2013|isbn=978-2-9813755-0-6|language=French|url=https://www.ledevoir.com/lire/373278/les-vies-revees-d-un-bordel-disparu}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=L'enfer d'une fille de rue|publisher=[[:fr:Béliveau Éditeur|Béliveau Éditeur]]|author=St-Sauveur, Isa-Belle|date=2020|isbn=978-2-89793-106-3|language=French|url=https://www.tvanouvelles.ca/2020/02/27/lenfer-dune-fille-de-rue}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Ces Spectres Agités|publisher=[[:fr:Éditions du Boréal|Boréal]]|pages=60–61|author=[[Louis Hamelin|Hamelin, Louis]]|date=1991|isbn=978-2-7646-2057-1|language=French|url=https://www.editionsboreal.qc.ca/catalogue/livres/ces-spectres-agites-1768.html}}</ref>{{Citation overkill|date=December 2023}}

Gentrification has changed this somewhat in recent years.<ref>{{cite news|title=Embourgeoisement : que va devenir le quartier Centre-Sud?|url=https://ici.radio-canada.ca/premiere/emissions/le-15-18/segments/reportage/102100/montreal-developpement-immobilier-condos|publisher=[[Ici Radio-Canada Télé|Radio Canada]]|location=Montreal|date=15 January 2019|access-date=6 December 2020|language=French}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Faced with eviction, tenants in Centre-Sud throw a protest party|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/eviction-party-centre-sud-1.5198712|publisher=[[CBC/Radio-Canada|Radio Canada]]|location=Montreal|date=7 July 2019|access-date=6 December 2020}}</ref>