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Montreal homeless shelters fear impact of another COVID-19 lockdown
COVID-19 crisis continues, difficulties for Montreal’s homeless population are worsening.After being closed for the holidays, Resilience Montreal reopened their doors on Monday. But things at the shelter are different than they were before.Instead of being able to serve up to 80 clients a day, they’ve been reduced to allowing just 12 people at a time in their facility.“Now, what we’re reduced to is essentially rushing people through a building — passing them a plate of food and a pair of pants on the way out the door, and they can’t even eat inside,” said David Chapman, project coordinator at the shelter.An outbreak of COVID-19 has hit Montreal’s homeless community hard.It has infected staff and forced shelters to close, shift or reduce