A pair of unbiased Montreal metropolis councillors have tabled a movement to get town to declare a state of emergency on homelessness subsequent week.
The movement calls on town to usher in a number of measures together with requisitioning non-public lodging areas to shelter the unhoused earlier than winter comes and allocating extra assets to shelters.
Craig Sauvé, one of many councillors behind the movement, says Montreal must step as much as shield the lives of its rising homeless inhabitants as shelters scramble to accommodate town’s unhoused.
Group group Resilience Montreal says declaring a state of emergency might assist homeless shelters put a roof over extra folks’s heads and forestall folks from dying within the chilly.
A Metropolis of Montreal spokesperson says different measures are higher suited to addressing the issue than declaring a state of emergency, similar to constructing extra modular housing models.
If Montreal did again the movement, it will be part of a rising listing of cities throughout Canada which have declared a state of emergency on homelessness in recent times, together with Toronto, Edmonton and Hamilton, Ont.
This report by The Canadian Press was first revealed Nov. 16, 2024.
