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A homeless encampment sweep is the forced removal of homeless people and their property from a public area. It is a frequently-used strategy to mitigate issues related to homelessness. [ 1 ] Often called "encampment resolutions" or "clean-ups" by local governments, they are alternatively labeled "sweeps" by advocacy groups . [ 2 ]
An encampment off Story Road and along the Coyote Creek in San Jose which had first formed in 1999 became home to 300 people by the 2010s. [70] The city first attempted the sweep the encampment in 2012, displacing 150 people. [71] In 2013, the city approved a $4 million budget to provide temporary rental vouchers to some of the encampment's ...
More than half of 346 people participating in the survey experienced an encampment sweep which the researchers defined as "forced relocation" from where they were sleeping. Most were moved more ...
FILE — Sanitation workers move a tent to a garbage truck at a small homeless encampment in New York, April 6, 2022. (Seth Wenig/) Adams recently met with the Daily News in an exclusive interview ...
More cities across the U.S. are cracking down on homeless tent encampments that have grown more visible and become unsafe.
According to a study published in JAMA last year, encampment sweeps and bans that involuntarily displace people experiencing homelessness may exacerbate morbidity and mortality among our already ...
Three years ago, Joel Hernandez built a small wooden shack under the 405 freeway cutting through Los Angeles. Hernandez has had similar homes be cleared in homeless encampment sweeps by state or ...
The AP submitted data requests to 30 U.S. cities regarding encampment sweeps and received at least partial responses from about half. In Phoenix, the number of encampments swept soared to more ...