Less than half of individual shelters N.S. bought last year for unhoused people open

80 shelters set up so far, work continues on remaining 120, Community Services says

The Canadian PressLyndsay Armstrong

Less than half of the 200 self-contained shelters Nova Scotia bought for unhoused people are open almost a year after the plan was announced.

As of Tuesday, 80 of the insulated, 70-square-foot fibreglass shelters made by the U.S. company Pallet are ready for use.

When Nova Scotia announced on Oct. 11, 2023, it was putting $7.5 million toward Pallet shelter villages, the Department of Community Services said vulnerable residents would benefit from them by winter of that year, along with other supp…

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