People who live at a small homeless encampment in Dartmouth, N.S., are remembering a fellow resident who died there last week, and there are fears others may not survive the winter.
Darren Smith has been volunteering to help the homeless for more than two decades, and says more people are living in tents than he’s ever seen before.
Organizations that work with people experiencing homelessness or exiting the criminal justice system say the high cost and low availability of rentals in Halifax means people can't move out of shelters or temporary housing, and new people can't move in.