Focus turns to finding housing for campers living under Montreal expressway – Montreal | 24CA News

People dwelling in tents beneath the Ville-Marie Expressway have been jubilant Tuesday after a decide dominated that they’ll stay on the positioning  for one more 10 days.

“It’s the minimum we could’ve expected for these people who are among the most impoverished people in Quebec,” Donald Tremblay of the Mobile Legal Clinic (MLC) informed Global News after breaking the news to the campers.

But Tremblay and others preventing on behalf of the unhoused individuals are disenchanted {that a} answer nonetheless hasn’t been discovered since final fall, when Transports Québec first issued an eviction discover with the intention to perform what it says is pressing restore work on the overpass.

“They deserve to be housed, they deserved to be helped by our government,” Tremblay insisted.  “This is a governmental responsibility.”

So after a second eviction discover in March, the MLC  sought an injunction to dam the transfer till the unhoused people discover locations to reside.

A decide had been pushing the edges to discover a answer earlier than Wednesday, the eviction date, however that failed.

Hence Tuesday’s ruling.

Neither aspect needs to debate the main points of negotiations however they’ll attempt once more over the following 10 days.

“We’re formally calling on the government to sit down and negotiate a solution to this problem,” stated Tremblay.

Jennifer Maccarone, Quebec Liberal Party MNA for the Westmount-Saint-Louis using which incorporates the positioning in query, can be blasting the provincial authorities.

According to Maccarone, “there’s nothing that’s stopping them from taking action within the 10 days.”

At the hearings in March the decide pointed to what she thought have been insufficient efforts made by the Centre-west well being board in whose jurisdiction the camp is situated.

Others who work with the homeless inhabitants agree that well being authorities do have a job to play on this case.

“This is going to cost some money so we were hoping very much that the relevant health organizations find the necessary funds to make sure that we can arrive at successes,” identified James Hughes, president and CEO of the Old Brewery Mission which gives companies to the unhoused.

Quebec minister of social companies Lionel Carmant refused to remark Wednesday, saying that the matter is earlier than the courts, however in an announcement the Centre-West well being board says it doesn’t supply housing.

“CIUSSS West-Central Montreal works closely with the CIUSSS du Centre-Sud-de-l’Île-de-Montréal, whose regional role is to ensure the development of a wide range of housing solutions for the homeless population,” reads the assertion partly.

Global News didn’t hear again from the Centre-Sud-de-l’Île-de-Montréal by deadline.

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