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From a release:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n HALIFAX:<\/strong> With freezing temperatures and significant snowfall this weekend, Tim Houston must provide housing to those in need immediately. <\/p>\n\n\n\n It was reported this weekend that a resident of the Dartmouth tent encampment died sleeping outside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe\u2019ve had significant snowfall and freezing temperatures this weekend and the number of emergency shelter spaces just doesn\u2019t meet the need,\u201d said Suzy Hansen, NDP Housing spokesperson. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt\u2019s dangerous to leave people to sleep outside in tents with so few options to stay warm. Now, what we all feared could happen has, and a man has died.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”71″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”34″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”6″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n As of November 28, the Affordable Housing Association of Nova Scotia reported there are 1066 people actively homeless just in HRM. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMy condolences to the family and everyone who is processing this tragic death,\u201d said NDP Leader Claudia Chender. \u201cWe need housing, now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Lease out the hotels, use the churches and community halls, buy shelters, and massively incentivize non-market providers to build quickly. No one should be sleeping outside.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The NSNDP has tabled legislation calling for a ban on all winter evictions similar to rules preventing Nova Scotia Power from cutting off people\u2019s power during the winter months.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”148″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”31″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”92″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [adrotate banner=”206″] [adrotate banner=”126″] From a release: HALIFAX: With freezing temperatures and significant snowfall this weekend, Tim Houston must provide housing to those in need immediately. It was reported this weekend that a resident of the Dartmouth tent encampment died sleeping outside. \u201cWe\u2019ve had significant snowfall and freezing temperatures this weekend and the number of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35774,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[957],"tags":[3124,50,5823,5824,1637,121,1378],"class_list":["post-41070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-claudia-chender","tag-halifax","tag-homelss-encampment","tag-homlessness","tag-housing","tag-hrm","tag-n-s-ndp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}