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A makeshift camp near Notre-Dame Street in Montreal.
Our shuttle bus, operating overnight since December 1, will offer safe transport to the new site from over capacitated shelters and other key pick-up locations around the city.
Yesterday, La Presse published an op-ed in light of Montreal’s first winter overflow unit having opened its doors at the old Royal Victoria Hospital. This initiative is the result of a remarkable, fast-paced collaboration of Montreal’s main homelessness organizations: Welcome Hall Mission, La Maison du Père, Accueil Bonneau and our own Old Brewery Mission, including our Patricia Mackenzie Pavilion for women.
It is worth underscoring that this is a temporary solution to overcrowded shelters’ pressing needs, but the long-term answer to homelessness reduction remains in access to supported, affordable housing—not in additional warehousing of homeless people.
Together, we will make it work.
A makeshift camp near Notre-Dame Street in Montreal.
Credit: Ville de Montréal - Sylvain Légaré
Résidence Bash Shetty
James Hughes, President and CEO, Nicole Beaulieu, Executive Director, Philanthropic Development, Dominique Lambert, President, Women's Services Committee, Solange Lavigne, Co-Director, Women's Services, Chantal Rollin, Co-Director, Women's Services, Robyn Cohen, Honorary Co-President and Director of Marketing at Modico Canada Ltd., and Lara Nourcy, Honorary Co-President and Executive Vice-President and Leader, Individual Insurance and Financial Services at Beneva, at the Old Brewery Mission Gala Mission pour Elles.
Voisines de Lartigue is a rehousing project for women.