Halifax won't remove shelters for homeless people that have popped up on municipal property recently if they're occupied, but it will remove vacant ones, the municipality said Monday. "We're not in the business of just allowing structures to be dropped on municipal property if no one is using them," he said. Goodsell said building the huts on municipal property is appropriate because he believes the city should be housing him. "The Halifax Regional Municipality takes an empathy-based human rights approach to homeless encampments that recognizes the human dignity of people experiencing homelessness," she said. She reiterated that people aren't allowed to build structures on municipal property without permission.

Source: CBC News January 25, 2021 20:13 UTC