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Smaller homeless tent cities or tents may exist in Jacksonville. Lubbock, Texas: Avenue A and 13th Street encampment [48] Norfolk, Virginia [49] St. Louis, Missouri had a camp at a park near downtown which was cleared in January 2021, and homeless camps still exist in the Saint Louis area [50] Pensacola, Florida; Tampa, Florida [51]
On 6 April 2022 police arrested a group of homeless advocates in the East Village who blocked a homeless encampment from being dispersed for several hours. [131] In May, eight protestors were arrested during a sweep of the "Anarchy Row" encampment near Tompkins Square Park. This encampment resisted dispersal more than most others, and gained a ...
In late October, on a park bench outside his makeshift dwelling, the 38-year-old described life at the homeless encampment where he lives with about a dozen or so others as “depressing”.
Tent encampments have long been a fixture of West Coast cities, but are now spreading visibly across the U.S. The federal count of homele Cities crack down on homeless encampments.
Another homeless encampment, unaffiliated with Tent City 3 and 4, lived in donated, mainly fuchsia, tents at the University Congregational United Church of Christ in Seattle's University District [26] for several months ending March 5, 2009, at which time it moved to the suburb of Bryn Mawr south of Seattle. [27]
More cities across the U.S. are cracking down on homeless tent encampments that have grown more visible and become unsafe.
L.A., Portland, and other cities are spending millions to house homeless people in outdoor "safe sleeping" sites. Homeless Encampments Cost These Cities Tens of Thousands of Dollars Per Tent Skip ...
In June 2023, Austin Police responded to a shooting near West 22nd 1/2 Street and Rio Grande Street. One person was taken to the hospital with critical, life-threatening injuries. The suspect, Brian Baca, was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and taken into the Travis County Jail. [19]