With nowhere to go, number of income assistance clients living in hotels skyrockets

Posted: Apr 16, 2021 6:00 AM AT | Last Updated: April 16
Stanley Hemming, 61, waits every week to find out if his hotel stay will be renewed.(Steve Lawrence/CBC)
Evicted from his Halifax apartment on March 31 for rental arrears, Stanley Hemming packed a few changes of clothes, some essential paperwork and little else.
He went to the hospital, in part because as a diabetic, he knew his blood sugar was dangerously high. But in equal part, he hoped to be admitted just so he would have a place to sleep that night.
Hemming, 61, wasn't admitted to hospital that day, but to his relief, he was offered a bed elsewhere. Staff with the Nova Scotia Department of Community Services placed Hemming in a hotel room, where he's been living ever since. 

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