As the nights grow colder, street outreach worker Lucas Goltz tries to think of creative ways to help the growing number of people living in tents in downtown Halifax stay warm. 

"We have to resort to giving them a propane stove with one burner to heat up their tent, or to give them some mitts or some extra socks, or to give them those hand warmers that they'll slip in their pants to keep themselves warm," said Goltz, the program co-ordinator for the Navigator Outreach Program. 

He said some peop…