Biggest homeless facility inaugurated
The city’s largest public housing facility was inaugurated Monday on tiny Christin Street downtown. It includes 144 units.
The building will be administered by Accueil Bonneau. The woman who runs the Accueil says the city needs thousands of units like this to house its homeless.
Nicholas 15:55 on 2024-02-05 Permalink
Great. Though I love how this building is 15 storeys, and some of the ones next to it are also 15 (another is 10), and yet 150 metres away from this is the old Voyageur terminal that the city has zoned for 5 storeys, and various people complain that anything taller is out of context with the neighbourhood.
DeWolf 19:11 on 2024-02-05 Permalink
As usual the CTV article is wrong. This may be the largest building specifically dedicated to formerly homeless people, but it’s certainly not the largest public housing block in Montreal. There are many even bigger ones just blocks away.
Also, Nicholas, the city recently announced that the bus station development will be the same height as Place Dupuis, which is 30 storeys:
https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/grand-montreal/2024-01-12/quartier-latin/700-logements-avec-vue-sur-un-poste-electrique-sur-berri.php
Nicholas 10:49 on 2024-02-06 Permalink
That’s great, DeWolf! Also the CTV article was also wrong in that it had a 3 year old uncredited Google Street view screenshot of rubble, not the new building, but my correction had too many links so was marked as spam.