Last week, Montreal Mayor Valerie Plante announced that the City would launch a public consultation on homelessness. Led by the City’s public consultation office (OCPM), the process will seek to hear from housed and unhoused citizens alike about problems with service provision and cohabitation.
CKUT caught up with Jérémie Lamarche from the Réseau d’aide aux personnes seules et itinérantes de Montréal (RAPSIM), an umbrella organization of groups serving Montrealers experiencing homelessness, about the planned consultation.
Lamarche said they’d like to see less criminalization of homelessness and drug use – and no more dismantling of encampments while the city lacks the resources to house everyone with dignity.
