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Halifax is now allowing homeless encampments in its parks. Should other cities do the same?
City Space
English - March 05, 2024 10:00 - 39 minutes - 36.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsNews Society & Culture accessibility cities city planning climate change future cities green space housing policy the globe and mail transit Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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On August 18, 2021, downtown Halifax made international news when the city erupted in a sprawling protest against the removal of illegal homeless shelters from a park. Compared to other Canadian cities, Halifax’s homeless population has tripled in the last three years. Emergency shelters aren’t doing enough. Building new housing takes time. It takes policy changes — and money. Until that’s in place, is leaving people to camp in parks really the best a city can do? We’re telling the story of park encampments, and how the city’s homelessness problem got so bad.