Montreal’s Village Neighborhood Crisis: Mayor’s Response and Calls for Action

Montreal’s Village Neighborhood Crisis: Mayor’s Response and Calls for Action

2024-02-26 02:50:40

The Village neighborhood in Montreal is facing an unprecedented crisis of homelessness and insecurity. This week, Mayor Valérie Plante, however, indicated that the situation was improving and that the neighborhood was “on the right track.”

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In an interview with LCN, the real estate broker and merchant in the village, Younes El Moustir, expressed his deep disagreement with the mayor of Montreal.

He highlighted a recent study by the firm Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton which suggests in particular that 93% of Village residents do not feel safe and that 87% find the streets too dirty.

“There is a distortion between the report, what people experience on the ground and what Mayor Valérie Plante says,” says Mr. El Moustir.

The latter questions the efforts made by the Plante administration and the results of these efforts.

“Today, when we ask him the question: “are you able to measure the progress of the actions that were undertaken a year ago?” We don’t have an answer. There are no numbers to measure progress. So, before there is progress, there must be a vision, a program that is put in place,” underlines the real estate broker.

“Currently, there is not much, apart from announcements a little to the right and left which are not very concrete,” he adds.

Younes El Moustir is particularly of the opinion that the political structure of the Montreal administration must be reviewed so that the mayor is no longer responsible for the Ville-Marie borough. He calls for a mayor who would be dedicated to the issues of the borough.

These issues require special attention and diversified resources, he maintains.

“It is not more police officers that we need, but many more than that. The police, moreover, do excellent work on the ground, but they are poorly supported. They do not have the necessary resources to resolve this security problem,” explains the real estate broker and merchant.

To see the full interview, watch the video above.

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