https://pressprogress.ca/ontario-cities-are-clearing-homeless-encampments-where-are-people-supposed-to-go/
Oct 24, 2025 - Amidst a housing crisis with no end in sight, municipalities across the province have been cracking down on the unhoused
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https://www.thestranger.com/news/2016/10/13/24616266/amid-sweeps-backlash-council-members-release-competing-plans-for-addressing-homeless-encampments/comments/46
Comments on "We have a PR issue to deal with," Seattle City Council President Bruce Harrell told his eight colleagues Monday morning. Several council members...
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https://www.phillyvoice.com/philly-homeless-encampments-protests-parkway-kenney-city-council-court/
Negotiations between Philadelphia officials and the organizers of two homeless encampments continued Tuesday despite an anticipated move by the city to vacate...
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https://thereader.com/2025/10/31/a-new-approach-omaha-launches-pilot-program-to-address-homeless-encampments/
Oct 31, 2025 - Several Omaha area nonprofits are partnering with the mayor’s office to launch a pilot program intended to meet the needs of those living on the street.
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https://www.utahinvestigative.org/taxpayers-spent-over-half-a-million-dollars-to-clean-homeless-encampments-in-2021/
Jul 24, 2022 - The following story was funded with support from The Economic Hardship Reporting Project and was reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in...
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https://www.thestranger.com/news/2016/10/13/24616266/amid-sweeps-backlash-council-members-release-competing-plans-for-addressing-homeless-encampments/comments/35
Comments on "We have a PR issue to deal with," Seattle City Council President Bruce Harrell told his eight colleagues Monday morning. Several council members...
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https://grist.org/article/seattle-homeless-encampments-growing-trash-problem/
In Seattle, homeowners dump their garbage in homeless encampments and the city uses trash buildup as a reason to clear encampments with no notice.
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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/12/05/socialist-nyc-mayor-elect-zohran-mamdani-plans-to-end-sweeps-of-homeless-encampments/
Jan 10, 2026 - New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is not planning to continue clearing out homeless encampments in his city when he takes office.
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https://www.westword.com/news/feds-fund-study-showing-challenges-of-homeless-encampments-11949185/
Although the research was conducted in four cities before the pandemic, Denver faces the same hurdles today in dealing with the unofficial encampments.
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https://projects.propublica.org/homeless-encampment-sweeps-taken-belongings/
Oct 29, 2024 - People say having their possessions — from birth certificates to loved ones’ ashes — taken in “sweeps” traumatizes them, exacerbates health issues...
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https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-09-20/la-mayor-race-homeless-encampments
Political candidates are visiting neighborhoods with large homeless populations to lay out their plans to address the crisis. Activists aren't happy.
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https://www.amny.com/weather/extreme-cold-death-toll-nyc-mamdan-02022026/
Sixteen people have died outdoors in New York City during the extended stretch of extreme cold, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Monday, as the city marked its 11th
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