Etiket: Homelessness
[Opinion] Homelessness is also a matter of housing and prevention
We are currently witnessing a perfect storm leading to growing homelessness across Quebec: housing crisis, inflation, increase in distress and violence, all combined with the arrival of many asylum seekers…
Cities are calling for a national project to end homelessness
Quebec cities are calling for a national initiative to end homelessness, an issue that is getting worse in both small and large municipalities. Thursday, a dozen elected officials took the…
Homelessness seen by children
Faced with new local tensions related to homelessness, an organization in the Saint-Roch district held a first workshop for children on the issue this weekend. An experience aimed less at…
[Série] A night in the heart of homelessness in Quebec
Contrary to what many feared, no homeless person died of cold this winter in Quebec. Heat stops or overflow sites for shelters, last minute solutions had to be put in…
[Opinion] Gatineau fails to meet its homelessness obligations
The Second portrait of homelessness in Quebec, published by the Ministry of Health and Social Services (MSSS) in 2022, states that between 2018 and 2021, there was a “significant increase…
Homelessness crisis | Marchand wants to “break the system”
(Quebec) Quebec and its CIUSSS on one side, the federal government on the other, underfunded community organizations torn on the ground, and the cities, stuck in the middle. Posted at…
Tenant at risk of homelessness battles real estate giant Mondev
An elderly tenant at risk of homelessness is fighting in the Administrative Housing Tribunal (TAL) to try to stop the demolition of a building that real estate giant Mondev wants…
Fight against homelessness and cities | A 180 degree turn
The involvement of cities in the fight against homelessness is relatively recent. Their traditional position was as simple as it was categorical: homelessness is a responsibility of the Government of…
Cold wave | Montreal opens two emergency shelters for people experiencing homelessness
(Montreal) The next few nights promise to be icy in the metropolis with perceived temperatures that could drop below -30. To prevent anyone experiencing homelessness from ending up outside, the…
Homelessness: Marchand and the UMQ commission a study on costs for municipalities
The committee on homelessness, chaired by the mayor of Quebec Bruno Marchand at the Union of Quebec Municipalities (UMQ), will commission a study to document the costs assumed by cities…
Indigenous homelessness in Milton-Parc | Maintaining ‘crucial’ refuge remains uncertain
A permanent shelter for the homeless natives, demanded for a long time in the Milton-Parc sector, is not yet on the way to materializing, despite the urgency of the situation,…
Bruno Marchand at the head of a committee on homelessness
Bruno Marchand has just been appointed as president of a new committee on homelessness within the Union of Quebec Municipalities (UMQ). • Read also: Quebec City wants to be designated…
[Opinion] Ending the housing and homelessness crisis for good
If you’ve been to downtown Montreal recently, you’ve no doubt noticed, like me, that the number of people living on the streets is catastrophic. It is arguably the most stark…
The wobbly math of homelessness
Find the mistake. When winter is upon us, Montreal has 1,600 places to accommodate homeless people. Posted at 5:00 a.m. In 2018, a count had however identified 3,149 homeless people…
In Roberval, a crisis unit to deal with homelessness
Homelessness issues in downtown Roberval have gotten much worse in recent months. So much so that the City has seen fit to bring together all the stakeholders in the field…
Homelessness is also on the rise in the suburbs of Montreal
It’s not just in Montreal that shelters for the homeless are overflowing. This is also the case in its suburbs. In the Laurentians, but also in Laval and Longueuil, organizations…
Count of the homeless in Montreal | The face of homelessness transformed by the pandemic?
Has the pandemic increased the number of homeless people in Quebec? Yes, believe the specialists of the question. To try to find the answer, more than 1,000 volunteers walked the…
The city of Seattle is hit by one of the largest homelessness crises in the United States
In the past decade, the city of Seattle, located north of the American West Coast, has become mired in housing and homelessness crises from which it is struggling to extricate…
Parks Canada and protesters cooperate to raise awareness of homelessness
As Parks Canada began its camping initiation activity on the banks of the Lachine Canal on Saturday, demonstrators erected their own tents right next to it to protest against the…
Homelessness Awareness | Parks Canada and protesters decide to cooperate
(Montreal) As Parks Canada began its camping initiation activity on the banks of the Lachine Canal on the Coursiers bank on Saturday, demonstrators erected their own tents next door to…