City of Montreal swoops in to protect rooming house from sale to private buyer
“It’s very important for us to to purchase that kind of building because these are the most vulnerable people,” said Dorais.
“If someone’s in a rooming house, we know who they are, we know where they are and in many instances we can help them either stay where they are or start the process of getting into a spot where they’re more permanently housed, more securely,” Watts said.
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