The city of Halifax has cleared the remaining tents from the University Avenue encampment.
The city removed the site’s encampment designation on Sept. 24, saying it would not be safe through the winter because of snow removal.
At the time, the city offered to help move the 35 people living there to another designated site or to connect them to service providers, who would help them find shelters.
The original deadline to be off the site was Nov. 1.
When workers arrived Wednesday morning, three people were still living there in tents.
Max Chauvin, the city’s Director of Housing and Homelessness, said service providers were working to find people alternative places to live or to find shelters for them, but they needed some extra time.
So they waited a bit longer before they fully cleared the site, but eventually, Chauvin said, the day comes when they have to ask those people to leave.
As part of the first step, Chauvin said staff talked to the people there and told them they had to go.
But they offered to help them move and to connect them to those service providers again. If they need help packing or storing any of their belongings, workers would help with things like that, Chauvin said.
If people packed their belongings into tote bags, which the city provided, then they would store those belongings.
By 1 p.m., the last of the tents were packed into a dump truck.
The green space in the road is now covered in empty patches of dirt.
This is the last encampment site set to close ahead of the winter season.
As of Nov. 28, there were 62 tents and three trailers across five designated encampment sites in the city, according to a news release.
