Modular housing units that will help house people experiencing homelessness are now installed in Halifax, but it's unclear when people will be able to move into them.
Volunteer Laura Patterson says conditions at Meagher Park, known by some as People's Park, have deteriorated this winter. A divide is also deepening between people connected to the west-end Halifax park and some people who live nearby.
For two years in a row, Nova Scotia has placed hundreds of people without permanent homes in hotels. The minister in charge says despite the cost of the practice, it will continue until the housing crisis abates.
A British Columbia judge has overturned orders evicting people living at a homeless encampment in downtown Vancouver, which law experts and advocates say could carry precedent and lessons for Halifax.