Around fifty emergency or transitional housing projects to help people experiencing homelessness will be able to see the light of day thanks to an investment of an additional $57.5 million from Quebec and Ottawa.
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Most of these projects will be expansion or stabilization initiatives for organizations that are facing a lot of pressure in the face of the homelessness crisis in Montreal.
In addition to the 1,536 places determined last December, 512 places will be added with this new funding, which represents an increase of 30% which was requested by the organizations.
“We should never see emergency shelters as being the only answer, because there are people in emergency shelters to whom we can refer to transitional or even housing,” underlined Robert Beaudry, responsible for of homelessness to the executive committee of the City of Montreal.
Concern also remains at its peak on the part of the Plante administration, which fears the 1er July in the context of the housing crisis.
“My colleague [la ministre de l’Habitation France-Élaine Duranceau] did another bill recently that was well accepted on evictions. We are going to do more and more prevention as well,” reacted Lionel Carmant, minister responsible for Social Services.
