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The province has banned emergency housing sites in Halifax and Dartmouth from taking in any more homeless and threatened to pull funding after complaints from neighbours and police, leaving one in three beds empty.They include more than 60 unitsThe department sent a scathing letter of complaint to the board of the nonprofit group on Aug. 15.
All of the requirements were supposed to be met a month ago, four weeks after the date of the letter. “While we cannot speak to the particulars of individual organizations, we work very closely with our providers, including OTC, on how they best support their clients and staff." The worker said that the organization is doing the best it can with the resources on hand and has made a lot of improvements since getting the ultimatum from the province.
“There are over 1,000 people homeless in Halifax and I certainly hope that the … government is not preventing those that are homeless and living in tents from getting into a shelter with doors, walls and heat.”
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