‘We’re still people’: As winter sets in, unhoused people in Halifax call for change
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“But … just the sheer urgency of it all means people are living in a state where them being unhoused is all that can be focused on.” Doucet said with the rising cost of living, there are many more people this year who are experiencing homelessness for the first time. “It is absolutely what is needed if we’re going to provide reasonable, sustainable housing for people, especially those living outside.”The issue, said Doucet, is that the people making decisions about homelessness and housing don’t have a full understanding of what unhoused people need to go through every day just to survive.
“And rarely do we see in those moments people actually coming into the parks to meet with people and to find out what they actually need.”In another designated Halifax tenting site, an unhoused man who did not want to be identified lives in a tent with his dog.He said he had been living there for about three months after getting kicked out of his previous place, but he’s been homeless on and off for years.
“It seems like for every person we get off the street, two more people show up the next week and it keeps growing and growing.”
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