Members of Halifax’s legal community are reacting after the provincial government prevented people living in tents from accessing higher income assistance benefits.

Human rights lawyer Vince Calderhead has been fighting for years to secure better income supports for people living in tents. On Aug. 5, he saw his position validated by the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal, which ruled tents count as a legal accommodation.

However, two weeks later, the province changed the criteria for income assistance, which effectively cancelled out the court ruling.

“By choosing the option of rewriting the law to overturn that decision, they’ve effectively forced…

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