Homeless Encampments in a sentence

Culver City has passed a ban on homeless encampments in the city, citing concerns that Los Angeles' recent crackdown could create more encampments there.

To that end, while providing alternatives to homeless encampments, we support measures that remove illegal encampments from public spaces and a robust criminal justice response to recalcitrant individuals.

Social and economic distress has seen the homeless population in Toronto rise in recent years, and the city's efforts to clear certain homeless encampments from parks has fuelled hostility towards those who are unhoused, said Hatlem, the street pastor.

Among the leading candidates, Calderón and Herod were the only two who said they would stop the controversial practice of sweeping homeless encampments that began under outgoing Mayor Michael Hancock.

But she has come under increasing criticism for homeless encampments, retail crime, auto break-ins and the decision of several major businesses to leave the city in recent years.

Cities across Canada are reporting a spike in fires in tents and homeless encampments as temperatures drop.

Democratic lawmakers in California recently defeated a ban on homeless encampments within 500 feet of a school, playground or youth center.

Homeless encampments entrenched along waterways in San Jose are polluting rivers, creeks, and streams with trash and biowaste.

Homeless encampments sprang up all over the city, including near ’s historic train depot used by thousands of tourists this summer.

If Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat, allows the measure to become law, it could be a notable departure for the city — which has for years sent police and sanitation crews to clear homeless encampments as they arise.

Last month, Bass and her Inside Safe team moved 43 people — including Parker — out of homeless encampments on or near 6th Street and Fairfax Avenue.

Tensions flared as crews dismantled several homeless encampments on Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles while police officers stood guard.

The 2022 letter also noted that Oakland has received totaling $4.7 million over the previous two years to address homeless encampments.

There wasn’t any court injunction in place for sweeping homeless encampments nor any plan for the President of China to visit San Francisco during that time.

Under a 2011 Supreme Court order to reduce severe overcrowding, the state offloaded thousands of inmates to unprepared county jails, and many ended up in homeless encampments.

But that canal is frequently littered with everything from discarded fast-food containers and the remains of homeless encampments to illegally dumped items like mattresses, car parts and appliances.

Gov. Gavin Newsom of California has ordered state officials to remove homeless encampments and makeshift shelters, affecting thousands of unhoused people.

Halifax councillors have approved a list of parks where new designated homeless encampments could go as a "pressure release," because the handful of current sites are overcrowded and only hold about half of the 150 people sleeping rough in the city.

Here is a breakdown of the requests council districts are getting for abandoned automobiles, homeless encampments, and sideshows.

In San Francisco—where Breed, a moderate Democrat, is up for reelection in November—police have begun aggressively sweeping homeless encampments.