Resilience Montreal is running out of funds
Resilience Montreal, which serves as many as a thousand meals a day to homeless people – many of them Indigenous – has three weeks of funding left. Where’s that $100 million for the homeless from two levels of government now?
matthew j. 22:30 on 2025-02-04 Permalink
I hope this doesn’t come across as too nimby. I can see Resilience’s construction from my back yard. We were invited to a meet and greet about the project about 4 years ago (still waiting for the next invite). I have no doubt at all that Mr. Chapman means well, that they have a good mission. But he was really dodgy that evening, not seeming to give a flying * about the people that live here. And they got a LOT of money to buy that antique store’s property. He described walking into a spectacular wall garden when it’s finished.
Jonathan 10:34 on 2025-02-05 Permalink
@Matthew he building you mention is a capital investment which i imagine has been provided specifically for acquiring and renovating the space. What i am understanding from the article is that there is no guaranteed operating expenses from the government coming from this expansion.
Orr 15:47 on 2025-02-05 Permalink
I have read recently that the gov’t likes to give social groups funding for a “project” and not give a consistent annual operation budget support. Mayor of Sherbrooke recently had a shitfit on exactly this project-funding model problem, as well as being offered peanuts over five years for social welfare projects.