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CTV - Ricochet The Only Homeless Shelter In The West Island Has ClosedThe only homeless shelter in the entire West Island of Montreal is now closed and the
Ricochet shelter is looking for a temporary home until its new space opens in January.
So, what happens to the people who depend on the shelter?
Clients and staff have known this day was coming for two months and had hoped the relocation
committee made up of city and provincial partners would find a site but they didn't.
The shelter is now closed and 50 more people are on the streets. | | Montreal City News - Ricochet Center Temporary ClosureThe Ricochet Centre in Pierrefonds-Roxboro is being forced to close its doors
temporarily after its lease expires at the end of May. It was the only shelter
on Montreal’s West Island.
“Never did I think that I would have to look at the beneficiaries in their
face and tell them that they’re not going to have a place to feel safe and
secure. And that was just gut-wrenching,” said Caterina Modica-Amore,
program and projects coordinator at Ricochet.
After three years, and four lease extensions, they’re searching for a new
space, but have come up empty.
“With the city, with the borough, as soon as I got the news, we met and did
another tour to look at what’s available. We found a vacant, well, the city
found a vacant building, but we learned on May 21 that it was too contaminated
to be suitable to operate. So we’re May 30 right now and we’re closed,”
explained Tania Charron, executive director of Ricochet. | | CBC - West Island left with no homeless shelter after Ricochet forced to closeLast fall, Charron and her team with the support of the Pierrefonds–Roxboro borough and the
city of Montreal scured a building that will only become available in January 2025 after
major renovations.
At the end of April, the team identified another building, only to find out it was too severely
contaminated for use.
"We're now May 29 and we have nowhere to go," said Charron.
In a statement, Robert Beaudry, the executive committee member responsible for homelessness, said
the city is meeting with Quebec's social services minister today to try and find a solution to
Ricochet's lack of space.
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Montreal Gazette - West Islands Ricochet emergency shelter forced to closeWest Island's Ricochet emergency shelter forced to close
Its 50 residents are out on the streets with emergency kits but nowhere to go.
he Ricochet homeless centre that operated in the West Island for 3½ years,
providing emergency shelter and transitional housing for 50 clients, closed
its doors Friday.
Roughly 50 residents, half in the long-term transitional housing unit and
the other half in the emergency overnight shelter, were forced to leave the
premises. Ricochet gave emergency kits to residents with nowhere to go that
included sleeping bags, sleeping pads, tents and backpacks. | | TVA - Le refuge montrealais Le Ricochet a ferme ses portes vendrediSachant que tout est à recommencer pour la clientèle qui se retrouve devant rien,
les intervenants leur ont préparé des trousses de survie. Ils ont distribué cette
semaine une cinquantaine de sacs à dos, de matelas de sol, de sacs de couchage,
des couvertures, de la nourriture non périssable, une tente et 12 billets d’autobus.
«C’est un échec de devoir regarder une cinquantaine de personnes dans les yeux,
de leur donner une tente et de leur dire: excuse-moi, il n’y a pas d’autre solution»,
a déclaré au TVA Nouvelles la directrice générale du refuge, Tania Charron.
«Concrètement, le Ricochet, c’était deux programmes: d’abord, 24 lits d’urgence,
puis un programme de réinsertion sociale avec 24 places 24/7 pour aider les personnes.
Nous, ce qu’on veut, c’est donner l’opportunité de rebondir aux gens», explique
Tania Charron.
| | Global - Montreal shelter left scrambling without new location, forcing almost 50 people to the streetThey found a temporary space to set up while their new building was being renovated,
but that plan came crumbling down in recent weeks upon the discovery that the new
structure was too contaminated to move in.
By the end of May, the shelter had to close its doors, with nowhere to go as it
scrambled to find a new space.
Tania Charron, executive director of Rocochet, said her team, the borough and
the City of Montreal had been working to find a new temporary place before the
end of the lease for months. They finally thought they had a safe plan when the
city offered up one of its vacant buildings until the news of its contamination.
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Journal De Montreal - Crise Du Logement«Sur mon bail, c’est écrit que je paie en cash, ici, dans l’immeuble.
Ça fait trois mois que j’essaie de payer, mais eux veulent que je paie
avec des chèques postdatés ou que je fasse une heure de trajet pour aller
donner l’argent comptant à leur bureau», explique William Riley, qui
vit depuis plus d’un an au 2215 boulevard Rosemont, à Montréal.
M. Riley est poursuivi au Tribunal administratif du logement (TAL) par son
nouveau locateur, la société 2215 Rosemont inc., appartenant à Mark
Kilajian. Ce dernier demande la résiliation du bail à cause d’un retard de
paiement de son loyer de plus de trois semaines. Dans l’immeuble de 67
logements, une vingtaine d’autres locataires ont reçu le même avis. | | CTV - Why Is Montreal Taxing Homeless SheltersWelcome Hall Mission CEO Sam Watts on a new report revealing Montreal is
taxing emergency shelters. | | CBC - City Must Consider Community Impact Before Funding Supportive HousingShepherds of Good Hope proposing 4th facility in city's Carlington neighbourhood
The City of Ottawa must consider the potential impact on the surrounding community
before allocating money from a federal housing fund to supportive housing projects,
councillors decided Wednesday.
The funding in question comes from the federal government's Housing Accelerator
Fund (HAF), which pledged $176 million toward housing in Ottawa. Ninety per cent
of that money was allocated to affordable housing projects that are ready to build
but lack funding, such as the proposed Shepherds facility. |
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Global - Ricochet West Island Homeless Centre Looking For New LocationThe shelter in Pierrefonds-Roxboro is being forced to move by the end of March.
The regional health authority is reclaiming the building Ricochet has been using as it needs the space.
“We have always known we were going to have to move, the space was loaned to us for free by the CIUSSS,”
executive director Tania Charron said.
| | Montreal Gazette - Half Of Quebecs 10,000 Unhoused People Are In MontrealQUEBEC — With Premier François Legault and his government describing conditions as a perfect
storm, Quebec’s minister responsible for social services announced Thursday that the province
will devote an additional $15.5 million for shelters to help unhoused people on the street
make it through the winter.
| | CBC - A Montreal Program Is Saving People From Homelessness With The Help Of A Cash Boost"We've got people who walk alongside them for a couple of months, and then they're on their own,"
he told The Current's Matt Galloway.
The program was born mid-2021, after intervention workers noticed many people falling into
homelessness since the beginning of the pandemic didn't fit the usual profile.
"[They're] somebody who's just struggling and a few dollars away from homelessness, unable
to pay their rent, or they're part of maybe a classic rental eviction," he said. |
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TCVCMDomestic Violence resource locator. | | Maison Du PereVarious services for the homeless. | | Montreal Gazette - Homelessness In The West Island“It took a pandemic to get this place to open,” said general director
Tania Charron. “Because no one believed there was homelessness in the
West Island. No-bo-dy.” |
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CTV - Montreal Homelessness Skyrocketed In QuebecThe number of people experiencing homelessness in Quebec has increased
by a whopping 44 per cent since 2018, a new report has found.
In terms of sheer numbers, Montreal is by far the most affected,
accounting for the majority of homeless people in Quebec.
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