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Data from the Point-in-Time Count was released Tuesday, reporting that on April 7 this year, 586 individuals in the Halifax Regional Municipality were without a safe, permanent address. The previous count found that on the night of April 24, 2018, there were 220 homeless people recorded.
It may still be several more weeks before people experiencing homelessness can move into the new modular trailers at the Centennial Pool parking lot in Halifax. Thirty-eight units are now ready for people to move in, but staff still need to be hired to run the operation.
Volunteer Laura Patterson says conditions at Meagher Park, known by some as People's Park, have deteriorated this winter. A divide is also deepening between people connected to the west-end Halifax park and some people who live nearby.
Halifax’s drop-in warming centre only has the funding to open about 30 days a year, but the money needed to stay open all winter could go to permanent shelter.
Well Engineered Inc., the manufacturing company contracted by the Archdiocese of Halifax-Yarmouth, says it completed the project in about six weeks.