The volunteer work Patterson has done includes collecting and distributing donations via callouts on social media, supervising the site at the People’s Park and making dinners like she did tonight’s goulash. “And so I have a lot of empathy for people who through no fault of their own found themselves with nowhere to live.” “I don’t know if everybody in Halifax feels this way, but I feel like we’re all very precariously housed because there’s only the 1.6 percent vacancy rate, which is intensely scary,” she says. For Patterson, it’s because she could easily see herself in that position. Community Network since mid-August and continues to return to the park to help now that P.A.D.S. Patterson tells The Coast she’s been volunteering with P.A.D.S. “I think that myself and a lot of people were excited a couple of weeks ago when we heard from the city that they were going to be doing this modular housing,” says Laura Patterson, a north end Halifax resident and volunteer at the park.
HRM told The Coast the modular units, of which 73 are promised, will be here “before the snow flies.” But that time is approaching ( usually in November, in case you were wondering), and the city hasn’t given a public update since first announcing the units on September 29.