Halifax Encampment

• Halifax braces for another summer of full parks as homelessness continues to rise

  With summer fast approaching, the city of Halifax is preparing for an increase in tents around local green spaces as the homelessness crisis persists.

  Canada

  May 7, 2024
  
• Stress builds as deadline to vacate some Halifax homeless encampments inches closer

  With Halifax’s deadline for residents to leave five homeless encampments just one week away, stress is growing among unhoused residents and volunteers.

  Canada

  Feb 19, 2024
  
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• Halifax homeless encampment residents prefer tents over new $3-million shelter

  People living in a downtown Halifax encampment say they feel safer sleeping in tents rather than a newly opened shelter that one unhoused resident says is 'like a jail.'

  Canada

  Jan 24, 2024
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• No clear plan on moving tent encampments: Halifax Regional Municipality

  During Tuesday's council meeting, Coun. Waye Mason pleaded with other councillors, noting that dozens of tents are sitting in encampments in his downtown district.

  Canada

  Sep 13, 2023
• ‘We won’t forget’: 2 years after teardown, homeless encampments continue in Halifax

  On Aug. 18, 2021, a downtown Halifax homeless encampment was razed and a largely peaceful protest took a rough turn. Two years later, there are more tents than ever.

  Canada

  Aug 18, 2023
• Meagher Park fenced off, ‘physically secured:’ Halifax Regional Police

  Halifax Regional Police say Meagher Park has been fenced off and 'physically secured,' nearly a month after the deadline for residents to vacate.

  Canada

  Aug 12, 2022
• N.S. organizations offer alternatives to police-led Meagher Park evictions

  More than a dozen Nova Scotia organizations have signed a letter asking the government to consider other options before bringing in police to evict those staying at Meagher Park.

  Canada

  Aug 6, 2022
• Structure to secure food for unhoused people deemed safety risk by HRM, dismantled overnight

  Members of a Halifax encampment, known as People's Park, are speaking out against the removal of a wooden structure that the municipality deemed a safety risk.

  Canada

  Feb 27, 2022
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• Arrested N.S. housing protesters to contest charges on constitutional grounds

  A lawyer for protesters arrested during a clash last August over the removal of small Halifax homeless shelters says he'll use constitutional arguments during his clients' trials.

  Canada

  Feb 21, 2022