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Resilience Montreal will stay close to Cabot Square, as the day shelter has secured the funding it needs to purchase a building in the area.
Citing an urgency to act, Quebec Indigenous Affairs Minister Ian Lafrenière announced on Monday that the province was giving the shelter $3 million. Resilience will get another $1.5 million from the Fondation du Grand Montréal.
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The shelter serves a clientèle of homeless people predominantly from the Indigenous community, most of whom tend to stay near Cabot Square. It has been operating out of a former Japanese restaurant on Ste-Catherine St. W at Atwater Ave., but the lease on that space is due to expire in the spring.