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Makeshift encampments are not the answer to Montreal’s homelessness problem, mayor Valérie Plante said on Thursday.
Tent cities like the one on Notre-Dame St. E., which was forcibly broken up last fall, and the one in Boisé Steinberg, which was taken down on Monday, are manifestations of a larger problem the city is working to address in tandem with community organizations and different levels of government, according to Plante.
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“It’s never a solution to have people sleeping outside,” said the mayor, who was joined at a news conference by Samuel Watts, CEO of the Welcome Hall Mission. “We have said since the beginning of the pandemic, our administration leaves no one behind. We’re doubling our efforts, lifting up rocks to find long-term solutions for people experiencing homelessness.”
MONTREAL After Monday’s dismantling of Montreal s second tent city organized within a year, Mayor Valerie Plante was clear her administration will not allow such encampments. “The plan is that we want to bring people under a roof,” Plante said at a news conference Thursday. “That’s always been our intention.” Montreal has surpassed its goal of creating 950 housing units for the homeless, the mayor said to be exact, her administration has developed 1,089 units. “This is where the help can start, the real work.. to have a long-term roof,” Plante said. But opposition party Ensemble Montreal said the city s steps so far might not be enough to stop more tent cities from springing up. They said Plante needs to do more.
MONTREAL It was advertised as the height of luxury downtown living: a $400 million condo development that has, so far, been known more of a subject of controversy. Community groups now want answers on why promises made over parts of the plan have been broken. “It’s been difficult for the last few years, said Corey Gulkin of the Peter McGill Community Council. In 2018, DEVIMCO announced they weren’t going to build a school on the side and then. two years ago, High-Rise Montreal announced they would not build social housing on the site. Back in 2016, when the project was announced, those developers promised 174 social housing units, exciting the community.
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