‘I’m ready to sleep in the living room’: Desperate mum can’t find anywhere to go 10 days to July 1

A mother is desperate to find nowhere to go to stay with her two teenagers just 10 days before the fateful date of July 1 and the ballet of moves.

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“I’m ready to go to a four and a half for one or two years and sleep in the living room so that my children each have their own room, but even that is too expensive”, is discouraged Catherine Brunette, 42 years old.

Even if the Premier of Quebec, François Legault, said yesterday that no one would end up on the street at 1^er July, M^me Brunette fears finding herself on the street on this fateful date.

Since she separated at the end of March, this stay-at-home mother claims to be more than actively looking for accommodation for her, her 15-year-old son and her 13-year-old daughter.

“The apartment we had with my ex-husband costs $1480 a month, nothing included, so I knew that if I kept it I wouldn’t be able to eat, so I advised that I would leave”, explains Mr.^me Brunette, whose current accommodation is already rented for the 1^er July.

“If I had known I would find myself in this situation, I would have kept it anyway,” she continues.

another crisis

If M^me Brunette absolutely wants to stay in Hochelaga, where she has lived for 16 years, so that her children, especially her son, can stay in the school environment which pushes them not to drop out.

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“The first years of high school, he almost dropped out. There, he is in a special class, but if I change schools, I’m afraid he will drop out, ”she explains.

Infernal

Initially, M^me Brunette had set a budget of $1,100 for a five and a half, but quickly realized that was far from enough.

“I saw two and a half, three and a half for that price, but I can’t go there with two teenagers,” explains M^me Brunette, who is waiting for housing in public housing.

Currently, for a five and a half in the neighborhood, you have to expect to pay more than $1350 minimum, as has been seen The newspaper by searching the classifieds.

And when she finds accommodation, it is often difficult to succeed in getting it, as there are so many candidates in front of her, who are often quicker.

“The other day, I was supposed to go and see a property, I had an appointment, but just before, the owner wrote to tell me that it had finally already been rented”, laments the single mother, whose apartment is filled with cardboard boxes.

“I’m looking at where I can store all this,” she adds, looking at the mounds of cardboard boxes.