Emergency shelter spaces open in Nova Scotia as cold snap sets in
Board Member Jim Gunn says the shelter has doubled its capacity for the weekend in response to the temperature plunge.“With the new 20 more beds moved in Thursday,” he says, “we’re able to double our capacity and serve those in the city who could not get shelter because the city is overloaded.”
Gunn says buses are helping to bring people from the city to the Sackville shelter and others in HRM to ensure they’re warm and safe.“We’re ready to take more than 40 if we have to,” he says. “It would be hard to turn somebody away — we don’t want to.”Joy Knight, the executive director of Employment Support and Income Assistance with the Department of Community Services, says many shelters have been expressing the same desire to help.
“That’s the amazing thing about the people that do this work,” she says. “They will do whatever it takes to make sure that people are supported. We’re hearing that across the sector.” She says the department worked with partners and front-line workers to ensure demand is met during the cold snap, with warming centres opened up and capacity expanded at shelters including additional hours and more beds.
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