HALIFAX — Nova Scotia has installed less than 10 per cent of the 200 shelters it promised to create for the province’s homeless, more than eight months after its promise.
The province’s community services minister says work is underway to open an additional 96 insulated, fiberglass shelters in three locations, adding the government is still trying to determine where the 85 shelters will be established. leftovers he purchased.
Brendan Maguire says his department is looking “anywhere and everywhere” to find suitable locations for the remaining shelters, and cannot say when the remaining 96 will be ready to welcome residents.
Nova Scotia announced in October 2023 that it was paying $7.5 million for 200 shelters manufactured by the American company Pallet, 100 of which would be for use in Halifax.
Nineteen people live in individual 70-square-foot pallet shelters at a site in the Halifax suburb of Lower Sackville, set up next to separate toilets and a laundry room.
The same day the province announced the purchase of the shelters, it also released plans for a 52-unit tiny house community that would be established on land owned by the Halifax Regional Municipality.
The province initially said the first 30 units would be ready for residents by the summer, but has since pushed the opening date back to the fall.
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