Dartmouth community meeting about modular housing brings out the NIMBYs
Local gentrifiers came to share their thoughts on emergency shelters with Sam Austin and Erica Fleck.
Source: thecoast.ca
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Halifax-Yarmouth archdiocese calls on churches to help homeless
In a call to action on its website, the archdiocese said the effort could provide "a measure of protection from eviction on public land." The development follows the controversial move by Halifax Regional Police to remove a number of wooden shelters and tents from city land in August.
Source: cbc.ca
Nova Scotians will no longer need home address to get income assistance
People who don't have a home address will no longer be disqualified from getting income assistance starting next month.
Kelly Regan Eric Jonsson Meghan Hansford Nova Scotia Department Of Community Services Community Services Services Minister Kelly Regan
Source: cbc.ca
Mobile clinics to administer COVID-19 vaccines at Halifax homeless shelters in April
Posted: Mar 16, 2021 6:21 PM AT | Last Updated: March 16 The Metro Turning Point shelter in downtown Halifax. The province is rolling out mobile COVID-19 vaccine clinics at seven shelters across the Halifax area in early April.(CBC) Mobile COVID-19 vaccine clinics will head to Halifax homeless shelters next month, which advocates say is a key strategy to meet vulnerable people wherever they are. Jeff Karabanow, one of the founders of Out of the Cold Emergency Shelter and a professor at Dalhousi...
New Brunswick Eric Jonsson Robert Strang Jeff Karabanow Affordable Housing Association Of Nova Scotia Bend Community Health Centre
Source: cbc.ca