Provincial government funding to help fight homelessness in Quebec
Global News
The Quebec government is injecting $280 Million over five years to fight homelessness and offer more resources to shelters and help people find permanent homes.
The Quebec government is injecting $280 million over the next five years to help fight homelessness and find permanent places to live for people who don’t have fixed addresses.
The money is being earmarked for shelters such as the Old Brewery Mission and the Welcome Hall Mission in Montreal.
The funds also include plans to help Indigenous people who don’t have a place to call home and additional funding is aimed at temporary shelters for women.
“To make sure no women in need would be by herself on the street,” Neila Ben Ayed, director of the Patricia Mackenzie Pavilion of the Old Brewery Mission, told Global News.
The Old Brewery Mission and the Welcome Hall Mission are operating at full capacity.
And a shelter has opened with around-the-clock services at the site of the former Hotel Dieu hospital.
“This plan is a very significant change from previous plans,” Lionel Carmant, the junior health minister, said at a Monday morning press conference.
Many details still have to be worked out, but those running some of Montreal’s largest shelters welcome the new funding.