‘That’s like gold’: Anonymous donor gifts 500 winter coats to Montreal shelter
The story focused on measures put in place to help unhoused Montrealers as a polar vortex descended upon the city.While the exact number of people who are currently unhoused in the city is not known, Watts said needs are growing.Father-daughter duo continue tradition of helping homeless face cold
“One of the things that we know is that there are more people coming in to homelessness than going out, so that’s creating a backlog in the system of emergency services.”Watts added there has also been a shift in clientele recently in that asylum seekers, many coming from the United States through unofficial points of entry, are increasing in numbers.
“It’s a concern that we have, we are seeing it grow and it’s increasingly causing us to have to shift some resources around,” he said. Beyond addressing emergency needs, Watts said to effectively tackle the issue of homelessness, the time one spends being unhoused must be reduced. “So what we should be doing is more prevention upstream and providing supportive housing downstream,” he said.
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