A candidate for Halifax mayor says the municipality's approach to homeless encampments has encouraged unhoused people from across the country to move to the city to live in tents — a claim housing advocates and city councillors say is untrue.
Andy Fillmore, who was a Liberal member of Parliament for Halifax for nine years, said police have told him the city is attracting homeless people from outside the province, which he attributes to the municipality providing support like portable toilets and water at city-designated encampment sites. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scot...cts-unhoused-people-challenged-1.7334929
Surprising how the songbook changes when no longer under the Liberal banner. At least Halifax has opposing viewpoints as expressed by Fillmore and his opponents; providing the electorate a clear view on this issue.
And this dovetails into the recent push my housing/harm reduction advocates that all these homeless people are in fact local.
Are they?
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