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In Montreal, public housing is dispersed throughout the city. Unlike the situation in France, researchers therefore do not look at public housing neighbourhoods, but rather at neighbourhoods where public housing is located. But despite this dispersal in space, is Montreal public housing only found in socially deprived areas of the city ? To answer this question and to identify how public housing is integrated into the Montreal urban area, the methodology developed for this study is based on the examination of two sets of objective data, namely data from the Canadian census used to describe 'socio-residential'? spaces, and data from the Office municipal d'habitation de Montréal used to describe public housing buildings in terms of the features of the buildings and the socio-demographic characteristics of the tenants. The study revealed the variety of ways in which public housing is integrated into the Montreal urban area and showed that in Montreal public housing is not only found in socially deprived areas.