A 25-year-old woman is asking the city to better handle homelessness after she came came face-to-face with a naked man wielding a knife and a fire extinguisher in her apartment.A naked man possibly experiencing psychosis broke into a woman's apartment in Montreal's Chinatown. She says the city needs to do more to take care of the unhoused.
Jamie, a microbiology student at the University of Victoria, has been doing her co-op in Montreal and moved in on April 1. She says she has been worried about growing visible homelessness in Chinatown, and she's now used to seeing intoxicated people or people experiencing psychosis on the street. She hopes the city will take her story seriously and offer more solutions to keep people off the streets.
He says workers at the Old Brewery Mission have noticed an increase in incidents, as well as more encampments, and more people sleeping in public spaces and Metros than ever before."It's just screaming out for more resources: housing resources and professional medical resources being available. Those two things together are the foundation for taking on a very difficult, complex issue that's only going to get worse if we don't start investing.