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Residents say a new supervised-injection site in Montreal's Saint-Henri neighbourhood is making the area unsafe. Officials say efforts are underway to deal with concerns.
Montreal’s first supervised drug-inhalation centre is opening in the Saint-Henri neighbourhood next week, but the new facility will offer much more than a safe space to get high.
A transitional housing project and safe drug consumption site will open near a school in the Saint-Henri borough. While officials welcome the project, residents are resisting it.
"We’re on the front lines, we’re the social safety net for the province right now, and we’ve been saying for years there’s a housing crisis.”
Before Maison Benoît Labre opens in the new year in St-Henri, the staff is hard at work to dispel worry about its location near a school and to explain why its services are so vital.