Homelessness: Quebec, Ottawa announce $115M for emergency housing in Montreal

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Homelessness: Quebec, Ottawa announce $115M for emergency housing in Montreal
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The funding will create more than 520 new housing spaces in Montreal, a 30 per cent boost in available accommodation in the city compared to December 2023.

Related: There are calls for more to be done to address the homelessness issue in Montreal's Côte-des-Neiges-Notre-Dame-de-Grâce borough. After an overnight shelter closed its doors at the end of March, more unhoused people are spending their nights in parks or on the streets. Now a group of opposition politicians is demanding a new shelter for the area. Global's Dan Spector reports.

Ottawa and Quebec are putting up $57.5 million per year to develop emergency and transitional housing projects for people experiencing homelessness in Montreal.sent to your email, as it happens. A joint news release from Ottawa and Quebec says today’s announcement includes the inauguration of a hotel turned 24-unit community housing project for men experiencing homelessness in Montreal’s Mile End neighbourhood.Old Brewery Mission mobile clinic celebrates first anniversaryHomeless deaths a failure of the system, say advocates as memorial heldRead

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