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It’s unclear who will be given priority for these units. The location has 60 permanent supportive housing units for people who are chronically unhoused, with an additional five respite units reserved for people coming out of the hospital and need housing. Later this month, people are scheduled to move into the Overlook, the former Travelodge in Dartmouth, according to a Department of Community Services spokesperson. The province says it continues to work hard to address the crisis. Further questions should be directed to the province, he said. 'The municipality is providing in-kind property maintenance for the Halifax site,' said Nearing.

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Ryan Nearing, a spokesperson for Halifax, pointed to its most recent online update that includes locations of outdoor homeless encampment sites set up by the city and new emergency shelter locations in Halifax, Dartmouth and Lower Sackville. The Chronicle Herald inquired with the municipality and province about plans to address the homeless crisis. All vulnerable populations should really be taken out of those structures immediately and into something much more dignified.' 'It breaks my heart to see people in tents or in shelters but especially those people with intellectual and physical disabilities or seniors. At that point, he had not pitched a tent and there was no indication he was living there, he said. Karabanow said he ran into Kale at the park about a week ago. 'We don’t have massive amounts of people on the streets like Toronto or Montreal. There are several possibilities, he said, such as securing more motel rooms or filling unoccupied commercial space. “I feel like a broken record on this: we just need some sort of housing stock that is at least stable for folks to get them through the winter,' said Karabanow. The longtime homeless advocate said the province and city simply need to be getting people out of the cold. Jeff Karabanow, a professor at Dalhousie University’s school of social work, agrees.

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“Sadly and tragically, we will see more cases like this in Nova Scotia as the supply of low-rent housing evaporates, as waiting lists for supportive housing mount, and as community organizations struggle to patch together some help.” “I am seeing conditions and indicators similar to those that led the Toronto city council in 1998 to officially declare homelessness a major emergency in the hope of mobilizing urgent resources at all levels of government.

'It's truly terrible to see this in Nova Scotia,' said Urbaniak. Kale’s predicament is yet another symptom of a human crisis that requires urgent resources from all levels of government, the professor said. The crisis is closer to an emergency, said Tom Urbaniak, a Cape Breton University political science professor. There are more than 100 people living outside in and around Halifax and Dartmouth, according to an outreach worker with Out of the Cold.Ī 30-year-old man who needs a wheelchair to get around says he's been camping at Point Pleasant Park in Halifax for more than a week. Halifax is still faced with a homeless crisis. Well into winter, temperatures are dipping below freezing. I’m not getting enough money, food or rest.' I’m wheeling around too much and asking for money. I need lots of food to recover and I’m not getting enough. He had been staying in a hotel for a while but recently lost the room. 'I’m used to being heavy, right? I ain't heavy anymore.' He’s been in out of the hospital since.Įach day, he crawls to his wheelchair and wheels himself out of the park to panhandle for food. Kale said he suffered serious frostbite while homeless last winter. A few metres from his tent sat a wheelchair lightly covered by the previous night’s snowfall. He asked that only his first name, Kale, be used. Saturday afternoon he sat bundled inside it while people and their dogs walked the nearby trails of the popular south-end Halifax park. For the seventh straight night, he said, he’d slept in Point Pleasant Park in a tent.