Two trailers with beds and one with showers planned beside Notre-Dame encampment this winter
Two trailers with beds and one with services are planned for a vacant lot beside the encampment, with City funding of $1.4 million.
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Montreal will place trailers on a vacant lot beside the Notre-Dame Street encampment in Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve this winter: two with shelter beds, one with toilets and showers. The City has put money toward buying and installing them, and onsite services will be funded from part of a package announced by Premier Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, who is also minister responsible for fighting homelessness.
The trailers are planned, not yet installed. Installation is expected to start in December.
The encampment sits on land owned by Quebec's Transport Ministry. It was slated for clearing last summer until a court order halted the dismantling, and the case is still before the courts. The site has grown since last winter, Montreal Gazette reporting in May, and Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada said then: "I can't dismantle an encampment if I don't give people an option."
The census counted 200 tents earlier this fall. The City has not said how many beds the trailers will offer, who will operate the shelter, or what the intake rules are.
