Montreal Homeless

• Montreal mobile health clinic helps get homeless people out of tents, into apartments

  Old Brewery Mission says its mobile health clinic has intervened 2,691 times to help homeless people in the community in its first year.

  Canada

  Apr 15
  
• Montreal soup kitchen to stay open after securing emergency funding from province

  Accueil Bonneau had said financial pressures would force it to stop serving meals on weekends and that it would have to shut down its soup kitchen next month.

  Canada

  Jan 3
  
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• New pilot projects launched to help unhoused Montrealers through winter months

  The Quebec government is contributing $200,00 0 for a new pilot project in the Latin quarter downtown that aims to help unhoused Montrealers during the cold winter months.

  Canada

  Dec 21, 2023
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• Smelling badly could get you kicked out of Montreal libraries

  Some boroughs already have the bylaw in place. Added to the list of items in the  code of conduct is 'having personal hygeine which inconveniences other users or the personnel.'

  Canada

  Nov 24, 2023
• ‘Eye-opening experience’: High school students spend the night outside

  Students from Selwyn House School spent the night outside in sleeping bags to raise awareness and gain a better understanding of the realities of being unhoused.

  Education

  Nov 15, 2023
• What happens when Montreal residents don’t want shelters in their communities?

  Experts say as the homeless and opioid problems worsen more services will be needed to help the vulnerable, so a solution needs to be found, fast.

  Canada

  Oct 23, 2023
• Majority of unhoused campers evicted from Montreal overpass still without shelter

  Nearly four months after a homeless encampment under the Ville-Marie Expressway was dismantled, about two-thirds of the people who were evicted are still unhoused.

  Canada

  Oct 3, 2023
• Temporary closure of Chez Doris day shelter could put a strain on resources for unhoused Montrealers

  Chez Doris is temporarily pausing some day services until December at the earliest because of staffing shortages.

  Canada

  Sep 22, 2023
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• Housing crisis affecting Montreal North shelter for asylum seekers

  Kicha Estimé, who operates La Traverse, says now she has to turn away between five and 10 asylum seekers every day, and hers is the only shelter of its kind in Montreal North.

  Canada

  Aug 24, 2023
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• Montreal supervised drug-use sites getting boost from Quebec. Is it enough?

  Quebec is dedicating an additional $1.5 million for services targeted to drug users, including $1.2 million that will go to four organizations in three Montreal neighbourhoods.

  Canada

  Jul 21, 2023