Parents, neighbors and faculty members of Ascend Charter School in Oakland are voicing their concerns and urging the city to remove a homeless encampment that is blocking the school's emergency exit, posing a serious safety risk. The encampment, located on a dead-end street near the inter...
A homeless man moves his belongings during a sweep of an encampment in downtown Denver on Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023. Crews erected fencing along several blocks near a post office, and police ordered campers to leave. More cities across the U.S. are cracking down on homeless tent encampments...
SACRAMENTO -- A homeless encampment in Sacramento, at the center of near-weekly visits from the city's Incident Management Team, was cleared last week, but concerns related to safety and illegal activity have not gone away, according to the manager of an apartment complex nearby. On ...
Body Found After Fire at Homeless Encampment Under I-70 More KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A stretch of Interstate 70 westbound into Kansas City that closed after a fire under a bridge killed a homeless person will likely be closed until Monday, state transportation officials said....
15, 2025, after Louisiana state authorities ordered her and others to leave an encampment near the stadium where New Orleans will host the Super Bowl next month. (AP Photo/Jack Brook) By JACK BROOK and SARA CLINE Updated 9:36 AM GMT+8, January 16, 2025 Share NEW ORLEANS (AP) — ...
The city’s public-facing dashboard includes data points related to shelter referrals and public safety (such as shots fired and reported encampment fires), and a “snapshot” map, updated four times a year, showing encampments the city has removed. During his State of the City speech, Mayo...
Valley Water has banned homeless residents from camping along the 333 miles of waterways the agency oversees, and San Jose has enacted no encampment zones near schools and public trails. Langton said he expects sweeps of camps along train tracks to increase as well. “They’re going where ...
By the end of the day, outreach workers had found seven people for seven shelter beds. They returned to the Mission neighborhood encampment to tell the couple they could move into the tiny cabin. But when they got there, the couple had packed up and left. ...
Homeless Encampment in Los Angeles There are several ways of talking about the homeless. For one thing, I do not think they can be all lumped into one category. Therefore, I rarely speak about “the homeless” as a whole. Some are temporarily without an address and have some reasonable ho...
Advocates for homeless people say encampment sweeps that force people off the streets are an easy way to hide homelessness from public view.“Shelter should always be transitional,” said Lukas Illa, an organizer with San Francisco’s Coalition on Homelessness. “We shouldn’t have folks be in...