Press release: People’s Park transitions to resident-run system
Press release: After nearly 40 days, a 24-hour volunteer-run vigil at Meagher Park in Halifax is coming to an end.
Homeless shelters
Thrown out of Peace and Friendship, a poem by Thibault Jacquot-Paratte
In the morning,
the police came;
although we were outside
rent was due
A stunning poem about the violent evictions of unhoused people by Halifax police on August 18.
Dignity now! Rally calls for moratorium on evictions
Some 200 people gathered in front of Halifax City Hall this morning to demand a moratorium on the evictions of unhoused people all across urban HRM.
For immediate release: Houseless residents to be evicted without fault en masse from Dartmouth hotel
PADS Community Network and housing workers discovered this morning that an entire floor of a hotel that is currently used to shelter unhoused people will be evicted tomorrow morning. The Comfort Inn in Dartmouth says that the city has long known that these rooms were unavailable and booked by other clients, but the city did not warn anyone currently housed there.
Press release: Three weeks after the violent evictions, unhoused people are still living in fear of police action
Media release: Even as the P.A.D.S. Community Network is sending people to fill the small number of available hotel spaces, more people are joining the temporary sheltering place, dubbed “People’s Park. Volunteers and those housed at People’s Park blame the lack of clarity from the city about where people are allowed to temporarily house themselves safely, when no legal sheltering spaces are even available.
Shiva Nourpanah: Addressing housing crisis means also addressing violence against women
The inaccessibility of housing options is a key factor preventing women from leaving abusive relationships, and in many cases contributes to their choice to return to their abusers after they have left.
Judy Haiven on the evictions debacle : If
Judy Haiven on the hot mess that came about after the city decided to evict unhoused people from their modest shelters on August 18.
Kendall Worth: What I learned while visiting People’s Park
Journalist Kendall Worth visits the People’s Park encampment. “Something that society in general, and especially the financially better off, need to understand is that by far most of the unhoused people are not criminals. As well, people are not homeless by their own choice.”
News brief: Semi-annual count finds at least 81 people sleeping outside in peninsular Halifax and downtown Dartmouth alone
Rain, the remnants of Hurricane Ida, is coming down in sheets in Halifax as I am reading the recent update by street navigator Eric Jonsson on people sleeping outside in Halifax. It makes for grim reading, especially today. A section on the harm caused by the recent evictions by force of the unhoused people living in tents and crisis shelters is particularly disconcerting.
News release: P.A.D.S Community Network calls on city to declare a moratorium on evictions
News release: As the city council meets to discuss its strategy for engaging unhoused community members in the aftermath of last week’s mass evictions, P.A.D.S. Community Network is calling on the city to cease all removals of people living in parks.