Homeless: still not enough room or services

Shelters for the homeless are working flat out to house everyone from the cold and the pandemic, but there are still not enough spaces for everyone who needs one. Refuges are suffering not only from lack of space but from shortages of staff.

La Presse has started a series on how people with intellectual disabilities and mental health problems, who are supposed to be looked after by the public curator, sometimes find themselves on the street because there isn’t any system in place to ensure they have a safe place to live. Quebec recoiled so hard from the residential insane asylums where it used to park so many unwanted people that it left those who actually need care and shelter to cope for themselves.

Update: The issue seems to be between operators of shelters who say there isn’t enough space, and the mayor, who says there is, but not enough workers to sort out the reasons why people are homeless and get them the help they need.

I wish Mike Ward hadn’t thrown in his stupid offer of tiny wooden shelters, because now the city has to look bad for turning them down, and Ward gets to buy some “aw, he’s a nice guy after all” points for doing nothing.