MONTREAL’S FIRST PIT HOMELESS - calgaryhomeless.com

MONTREAL’S
COUNT AND

Er
Douglas Ins

Calga

CIUSSS ODIM

S FIRST PIT HOMELESS
SUBSEQUENT SURVEY

ric Latimer, Ph.D.
stitute & McGill University

gary, May 4 2016

Financed by

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

1. Key contr

– James M
– Christia
– Alison S
– Downto
– Converc

2. City of Mo
and partn

ributors:

McGregor, co-director of count
an Méthot
Smith
own YMCA
cité

ontreal very helpful sponsor
ner

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PLAN OF
PRESENTATION

1. Bunadckegrtrooou
2. Objective
3. Methods
4. Some key
5. Strengths
6. Looking t

ouknad PsItTorcyo–unwth, yfinMaollnytreal
es

y results
s and limitations
to the future

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BACKGROUND
STORY

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A SUBJECTIVE INTERPRETA
MONTREAL FINALLY DECID
HOMELESS COUNT

End of Chez Soi Montrea
project moveme
end
Movements to homeles
end home-
lessness in D
other provinces, h
countries

TATION OF WHY
DED TO DO A PIT

New Mayor
Denis Coderre

al’s own
ent to

ssness

Decision to count Montreal
homeless by March 31 2015

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OBJECTIVES OF
MONTRÉAL’S
FIRST POINT-IN-
TIME HOMELESS
COUNT

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OBJECTIVE 1: COUNT

Unsheltered Emergency
sheltered

Visible homelessnes

1.1 2.1

Public or private spaces, Emergency overnight
no consent or contract shelters

1.2 2.2

Places not intended for Shelters for
permanent human individuals/families
habitation impacted by family
violence

Provisionally accomodated

ss Hidden
homelessness
3.1 3.2
Interim housing Temporarily living with
others, no guarantee or
3.4 prospects of permanent
Institutional care housing
without permanent
housing 3.3
Short-term, temporary
3.5 Reception/accomo- rental accomodations
dation centers for without security of tenure
immigrantes/refugees

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OBJECTIVE 2: DESCRIBE P

POPULATION

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METHODS

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THREE DISTINCT OPERATI

BETWEEN MARCH 24 AND

2015 • Count and admin
evening of March
shelters

– 537 volunteers

– 184 intended se
metro stations,

• 2C4outenmt apnodraarydmhoin
rehabilitation cen

– Mostly organiza

• Administration o
soup kitchens an
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– 125 volunteers

IONS
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nistration of questionnaires
h 24 in outside locations and 9

+ 18 street workers
ectors (140 actually covered), all
, parts of underground Montréal

onuissitnragtipornovoifdqeursesatniodnonnaeires in
entre – March 24 to 26

ations’ own staff

of questionnaires in about 55
nd day centers March 25 and

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A FEW DETAILS

• About 40 restaur
to be visited

• Crackhouses, pe
• 50 decoys deplo

rants contacted ahead of time,
eep shows – not included
oyed on the night of the count

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PHASE 4 OF DATA COLLEC

• 6 crisis centres

• 1 respite centre
SHELTERS • 2 additional shelters

• 13 centres for victims

TRANSI- • 22 other transitional h
TIONAL • 2 welcome centers fo
HOUSING • 3 provincial prisons

OTHER • SPVM (police operati
PLACES • 18 hospitals

• 53 therapy centres ou
Montréal

CTION – APRIL TO JUNE

s of violence
housing providers
or immigrants/refugee centres
ions centres - cells)
utside Montréal, 13 centres in

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COMPLEMENTARY SUMME

• More information abo
homeless in Montrea

OBJECTIVES especially homeless
• Understand better wh

August 24 2015 referen

• 4 teams of 2 interview
24 to Sep 14 2015

• StheevmersaellvoergsaunpiztaotiSoenps
• Outdoor and public lo

ER SURVEY

out people who had been
al at the end of March,
youth, Aboriginals, women
ho is homeless in the summer

nce date

wers each in the field from Aug
ps 3h0ad questionnaires filled out
ocations + 85 organizations 13

SOME KEY RE

ESULTS

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COUNT: WHERE QUESTIONNAIRES ADMINISTERE

OUTSIDE LOCATIONS
HOUSING PROVIDERS

Transitional housing
Shelters
Therapy centers

SOUP KITCHENS AND DAY CENTERS
Total

ED

280
682

337
312

33

560
1522

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DISTRIBUTION OF 1522 QUESTIONNAIRES INTO 6

OUTSIDE OUTSIDE – VEHICLE – MAKE
LOCATIONS ABANDONED BUILDINGS
N= 177
EMERGENCY SHELTERS
SHELTERS
N=552 HOUSING PROVIDERS WITH

TRANSITIONAL
HOUSING
N=307

OTHER LOCATIONS REHABILITATION CENTERS –
N=61

HIDDEN ROOMING HOUSE (SROs) - S
HOMELESSNESS TEMPORARILY
N=356
NO INFORMATION AS TO W
OTHER MARCH 24 SPENT
N=69

6 CATEGORIES VISIBLE
HOMELESSNESS
ESHIFT SHELTERS –
N=1097
H TIME-LIMITED STAYS
– HOSPITALS 18
STAYING WITH OTHERS
WHERE NIGHT OF

Adjustment method to estimate number of people w

Questionnaires filled out on the str
metro stations)

Additional people who appeared cl
Pro-rated amount to account for m
TOTAL
Adjustment for decoys not found (1

TOTAL ADJUSTED FOR DECOYS NOT

Among 280 questionnaires filled ou
removed to account for their distrib

ESTIMATED NUMBER OF PEOPLE IN
AFTER REALLOCATION

who were in the street

reet (including 280

learly homeless 110
missed sectors 67

15 / 46): 457
T FOUND 221

678

ut in the street, 103 (36,8%)
bution to other types of housing

N THE STREET

429

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ESTIMATED NUMBER OF PEOPLE HOMELESS OT

QUESTION- TA
NAIRES

OUTSIDE LOCATIONS 177
552
SHELTERS
307
TRANSITIONAL 10
HOUSING 0

HOSPITALS 18

DETENTION CENTRES 33
REHABILITATION 1097
CENTRES IN
MONTREAL
REHABILITATION

CENTERS OUTSIDE
MONTRÉAL

TOTAL

THER THAN HIDDEN HOMELESS

ADJUSTMENT TO TOTAL
ALLY SHEETS ACCOUNT FOR

ADDITONAL PLACES

110 142 429
288 226 1066

287 447 1041
N/A 66 76
N/A 51 51

N/A 136 154

9 157 199
694 1235 301620

TOTAL NUMBER HOMELESS PER 10 000 INHABITA

35 29.7
30 28.1
25

20

15
11.2

10

5

0
Van (ville) Van (région) Calgary

ANTS

26.2
18.8
15.4

Edmonton Toronto Montréal

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ESTIMATED NUMBER OF HOMELESS PEOPLE SLE

10 1.5
9 8.4 Calgary
8
7
6
5
4 3.9
3
2
1
0
Van (ville) Van
(région)

EEPING OUTSIDE PER 10 000 INHABITANTS

8.8

2.2
1.6
Edmonton Toronto Montréal

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FINDINGS FROM
QUESTIONNAIRES

• aSmigonnifgicwanhtohmea5l8th%
• Significant role of

half of those on th
hspoemnetl6esmsoonvtehrsalol r(
older homeless)
• Confirmed high pr
• pSoupmumlaetriosnudrvyenyampr
• Many other finding

%nneoetdtsre–a1te3d% with Hep C
youth detention centres –

he street under 30 say they
r(omroinrecionuonnteer,poanret stehtitridngosf for

revalence of LGBTQ (11%)
mriocvsides information on

gs…

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STRENGTHS

• Administration o
cqeunetsrteiosnannadirseosup

• Exhaustive coun
than hidden hom

• Use of decoys, as
• Summer survey e

questions of inte

of questionnaires in day
p kitchens: more
nt of people in situations other
melessness
s in New York and Toronto
enables drilling down on
erest

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LIMITATIONS

• Not able to count

• Also, some unsh
missed

• 44 of 184 sectors

• No statistical ana

t hidden homeless
heltered in hidden locations
s missing : loss of precision
alysis

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FUTURE DIRECTIONS

• (N2o01fi7noalrd2e0c1i8s)ion a
• So far, interest on

maintaining featur
kceoemppinagraabbleilittoy tthoop
methodology

announced on next count
the part of the City in
res of our approach while
opsreofdruocme nnautmiobnearlsly-mandated

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THANK YOU FOR YOUR A

ATTENTION

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