A senior government official told a legislature committee Wednesday her department is still working to fulfill "dignity standards" required by the U.S. company, Pallet, before it will ship the 200 emergency shelters the province announced in October.
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An advocate who works with at risk residents in Sydney, N.S., worries that people will die this winter if more shelter spaces are not offered in CBRM. This comes as the Ally Centre has seen double the number of people sleeping in tents compared to last year.
The province has announced a pair of projects aimed at combating homelessness in Nova Scotia its first-ever tiny home community and 200 individual temporary shelters ahead of the fall sitting of the legislature.