Those vulnerable people “risk being adding to the ranks of the unemployed who lost their jobs and find themselves in a greatly vulnerable situation.”She said the pandemic made viewing apartments more difficult, especially in hard-hit Montreal, where the vacancy rate sits at a 15-year low of 1.5 per cent, and affordable apartments are becoming scarce.A recent study compiled by a renters’ rights group, the Regroupement des comites logement et associations de locataires, found that provincially the prices listed online for apartments available for rent averaged $1,044 per month — some 30 per cent higher than the average rent being paid by current tenants, according to the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation’s numbers.