The organization has over 100 volunteers across the city and provides sandwiches and other goods to seven local shelters. 

A provincial spokesperson told Global News there is no exemption being looked at by the government for homeless people right now.

As Montreal homeless shelters continue to struggle to provide services amid a COVID-19 outbreak, they fear another lockdown will only worsen the situation.

There are three new options for homeless Montrealers.

The location, which has acted as an emergency shelter in past winters, was an isolation centre for homeless people who tested positive for COVID-19 earlier this year. 

Pearce is leaving an organization that supports homeless people at a time when access to affordable housing, advocates say, is at crisis levels.  

People are pitching tents and living in public spaces because they say they have nowhere else to live.

According to the Welcome Hall Mission, 714 homeless Montrealers have been tested and 21 have contracted the disease.

'Donations are drying up and expenses are going up, so we're in a bad situation,' says the CEO of Montreal's Old Brewery Mission.

A first reported case of COVID-19 withing Montreal's homeless community has prompted concern among those who care for the city's most vulnerable.