Neither Mora nor several public commenters who claimed the encampment was a haven for child sex trafficking produced specific evidence to back up their claims. According to a state crime report, which Burien Police Chief Ted Bo presented earlier in the evening, crime dropped 8.5 percent in Buri...
In the past, this has sometimes resulted in City Parks staff dismantling and removing the encampment without showing much concern for the belongings or needs of the campers. And, an open fire in the dense woods where this encampment is situated is problematic. We are fortunate in Calgary to ...
Ric Young has been staying in the makeshift encampment for nearly three months and says most of the roughly 20 people living there are, like him, newly homeless. “When the public says they hate seeing the park like this, I just want to say, trust me, we hate being in thi...
When an encampment“poses a threat to public safety” or someone files a complaint to the city of Tucson, Pima County or the police department, homeless protocol is implemented. Through the protocol, the area is inspected, law enforcement officials and outreach service providers meet with the ...
Ric Young has been staying in the makeshift encampment for nearly three months and says most of the roughly 20 people living there are, like him, newly homeless. “When the public says they hate seeing the park like this, I just want to say, trust me, we hate being in th...
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...
The city’s homelessness data still doesn’t include that information. Nor does the Harrell Administration’s “state-of-the-art” encampment dashboard appear to include most of the information areportfrom the City Auditor’s office said the city should provide about homelessness back in 2022,...
In order to reduce the danger posed by homeless encampment on the city hall property, the city has made some adjustments over time. Listed in the WorkSafe BC report, the city has previously made an effort to improve sight-lines on the property. This was done in various ways, such as...
The encampment is steps away from Broadview-Thomson’s playground. The school district owns the land, and they refuse tosweep it. The school board, run by progressive activist Chandra Hampson, argues sweeps are inhumane. It puts homeless people in temporary housing, like hotel roo...
A homeless encampment that took over a large swath of Echo Park for more than a year appeared on the brink of extinction Thursday as city officials fenced off the area and police prepared to remove the relatively few remaining campers.