N.S. news: Halifax designated encampment closes [Video]

Friday was eviction day for the residents of the University Avenue tent encampment in Halifax, but 15 or so tents remain on the median.

“They can’t stay there because of the winter safety issue,” says Max Chauvin, Halifax Regional Municipality’s director of housing and homelessness.

At its peak, there were more than 30 tents on the site. The city handed out eviction notices in late September with Nov. 1 as the deadline to move out.

Chauvin says there won’t be a heavy-handed approach to removing the remaining people at University Avenue; instead the municipality plans to help them find a housing solution that works best for them.

“The question is, what’s the next step? For those people who are saying, you know, ‘Where we’ve been able to check, next week I’ve got this space and so on,’ that certainly something we will work with,” Chauvin says.

There are now five designated encampmentsin the municipality: Cogswell …