Housing rally underway in Halifax, one year after forced evictions from park
in part commemorating, remembering what happened here last year. But also envisioning doing a collective process of envisioning a future where we are addressing the housing and homelessness crisis without the use of police force.
”“That’s something that we saw that occurred last August, when people were being kicked out of the only form of shelter that they were able to find, because we’re in a housing crisis that is endangering the health and safety of people.”, there were 316 people who were chronically homeless — without adequate housing for six months or more — in the HRM at the end of August last yearThis week, that number is 469 – an increase of 153 people, or by nearly 50 per cent.
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