Halifax tenant locked out of apartment after fighting landlord eviction – Halifax [Video]

A Halifax man says he’s without a place to live after returning home from work to find his belongings thrown out of his apartment.

While Nova Scotia’s tenancy board said he has a right to stay, the man can no longer access the unit due to ongoing renovations.

Floyd Poulain had been living in the apartment, in the Fairview neighbourhood, for four years. The incident happened last week and he is now uncertain how to proceed.

“Kitchen table, lots of dishes in the cupboard, all gone,” he said.

“The bedroom set is gone. Somebody called me up on the phone and said, ‘your bedroom set is going down the road, someone’s taking your bedroom set and your mattresses’ and I said, ‘Holy mackerel!’”

Poulain says he was fighting an eviction notice at the time, on the premise that the landlord wanted to move family into his unit.

He recently testified …