Montreal wants to move day services from homeless shelter, citing ‘difficult’ cohabitation
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Maison Benoît Labre, located in the city's St-Henri neighbourhood, serves vulnerable clients who are either unhoused or dealing with addiction issues.
Montreal officials are looking to relocate some of the day services at a homeless shelter west of downtown that also serves as a supervised injection centre.
Sud-Ouest borough Mayor Benoit Dorais confirmed Tuesday that the city made the ask to the province, saying “collectively with the government we will have to find a safe and proper location.”
“The situation ended up being worse than we expected,” said Dorais, who is also the Montreal executive committee member responsible for housing.
Maison Benoît Labre, located in the city’s St-Henri neighbourhood, serves vulnerable clients who are either unhoused or dealing with addiction issues. It houses a supervised consumption site and about 30 transitional housing units. The centre also has food and employability programs for clients.
The city says both the housing united and supervised consumption site will stay at the current location, with Dorais saying the problem doesn’t lie with the “six to eight people” who use the supervised injection services on a daily basis.
Dorais says the issue is that the number of people who use the day services — such as meals, showers and a place to take a break from the weather elements — at Maison Benoît Labre is too high. The centre offers up to 1,000 meals on a daily basis, according to Dorais.
Dorais says it is “too big a concentration right now of homeless people” and “far more than expected.”
“That’s the principal problem,” Dorais said.
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