Editor's Note: Change begins with compassion

Dear readers, Housing costs and homelessness echoed loudly among voters’ primary concerns in our recent mayoral race. Montrealers made clear they are struggling to find affordable places to live, pay rent, buy homes and keep a roof over their heads. Gazette columnist Allison Hanes said it best in a recent piece about our new administration’s priorities: Housing affordability is “a major preoccupation of Montrealers of all socioeconomic backgrounds who are struggling to make end