MONTREAL --
Concordia University students are calling on the school's administration to turn an unused dormitory into temporary housing for the homeless.
“This is kind of a no-brainer. Why don't we try and get homeless people inside these beds?” said student David Desjardins.
The currently empty building has a fitting history: a former convent, it was used to house Montreal's sick, poor and orphaned in the 1700s. In normal times, it serves as a residence for 600 Concordia students but with the pandemic keeping students at home, Desjardins is heading the push to put it to good use.
“They have the opportunity and they have the resources to make a big jump in progress for the community and they don't want to do it,” he said.