With the summer season just a few months old, residents of tent camps throughout the city have increased by the population.
William Thompson has been a resident of the Geary Street camp for a month but has been sleeping hard in the past year.
“During last week, we had at least three, maybe four people wonder if they can come and stay,” said Thompson.
With the help of Thompson, other residents and given materials, the Geary Street camp has undergone significant cosmetic changes. He said that their objective was to make the site more presentable to the public, while promoting a greater sense of the community.
Thompson began to clean the Geary St. camp in anticipation of more people looking to set up the camp.
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“It’s hard to get out of bed when you live in chaos,” said Thompson. “We took on ourselves to ask the city to bring new trash cans, mulch – they gave wheelbarrows, rake shovels. We will do the job if they are ready to meet us halfway and bring us equipment. ”
If members of the community want to intervene or benefit from their time, Thompson said they would be happy for help.
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“There will probably still be 10 to 12 tents launched in the next two to three weeks,” said Thompson.
According to the longtime lawyer for Matthew Grant, Matthew Grant, tent camps are a terrible place, but he believes that they do not disappear anytime soon.
A staircase has even been installed on the designated site along rue Barrington, just at the bottom of the Macdonald bridge – in anticipation of the influx.
Something that the regional municipality of Halifax said was installed this week to ensure safe access.
But Grant thinks it sends a bad message …
“I think the reason they have done is that it will be your entry point for people who sleep hard in this camp”, “
Grant said. “You are going to have hidden people and you will not be
Come knows they are there.
And through the bridge on the Green path. Camp, residents also started to see more tents presented.
Shauna Allison moved to Green RD. In last week. She said residents would benefit from more resources that help recover drug addiction and find a job.
“I think the only way to break the cycle is to give people something to do,” said Allison.
She said it would promote long -term solutions to the housing crisis, so that people do not end in the street.
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