#homeless encampment

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As our government funds global initiatives and conflicts some of our neighbours are literally living in tents. A month ago this encampment already had quite a few tents now it has gotten even bigger.

It’s absolutely crazy how encampments are left to keep growing even when they pose a threat to public safety. After a camp fire tent city is still going strong ��� . This is also not just one area! You don’t have to walk far at all to run into other encampments too.

It’s time to help our fellow Canadians!

#voteppc to put Canada first

[sorstis]

When I was homeless and got out of the tent each morning I would walk to the nearby porta potties.

Without fail, as soon as I smelt pee I would be in a race against my body to get inside of one and pee. It's like there is some instinctual aspect of it.

[mandy-malady]

‘It’s everyone’s responsibility’: Nashville leaders propose property owners help pay for the removal of homeless encampments

by: Katelyn Quisenberry Posted: Jul 10, 2025 / 06:48 PM CDT Updated: Jul 10, 2025 / 07:11 PM CDT

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — A proposal from Metro’s Office of Homeless Services could shift more responsibility to private property owners regarding the removal of homeless encampments.

At Wednesday’s Continuum of Care: Homelessness Planning Council meeting, Director of Metro’s OHS April Calvin said that if a property owner wants a homeless encampment moved, they should help pay for it.

“If there is a property owner or a business or someone that’s going to ask us to close an encampment or move an encampment, then they should be the responsible party for paying shared cost in that movement,” Calvin said.

The proposal follows the release of this year’s point-in-time count, which found that more than 2,000 people are experiencing homelessness. However, the unsheltered population — those not in shelters or temporary housing — dropped slightly, with 43% of people living outdoors in encampments.

One of those camps used to be in Brookmeade Park. Dede Byrd spent years advocating for its closure and finding housing for the people who called it home. Byrd told News 2 it took the whole community together to work toward a solution.

“It took a whole community to house these individuals, and something that I have learned over the last four years is that at the end of the day, it is the property owner’s responsibility to maintain their property,” Byrd said.

The OHS told News 2 that it has successfully partnered with private groups in the past to share encampment cleanup costs and wants to make that approach official.

“We actively seek out partnerships that allow us to braid funding and share responsibility, ensuring that the costs associated with transitioning individuals into housing are sustainably managed.” -Statement from the OHS, in part

“Is it the Office of Homeless Services’ responsibility to do that?” Byrd asked. “No, I don’t think that it is. I think it is the property owner, the developer, the private business, they have to participate in some way.”

Byrd added that it’s a community effort. 

“It’s everyone’s responsibility; I don’t think you can lay it at the feet of just one,” Byrd said.

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Homeless encampment sweep in the San Francisco Tenderloin on Ellis Street between Taylor and Jones Streets by San Francisco Public Works on Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023. (Craig Lee/The San Francisco Examiner)

1. Christopher Jones (left), 51, and Jeff Fultz, 52, living homeless on Ellis Street between Taylor and Jones Streets. Christopher Jones has been living homeless since 1995 and Jeff Fultz came to San Francisco from Michigan 9 months ago.

2. Homeless encampment on Ellis Street between Taylor and Jones Streets just before a sweep.

3. Christopher Jones (left), 51, and Eddie Thomas, 57, both seated as San Francisco Homeless Outreach Team members talk with Jamel Davis, 39, during a homeless encampment sweep on Ellis Street between Taylor and Jones Streets by San Francisco Public Works on Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023.

4. Sean DeLise, Incident Commander San Francisco Fire Department Paramedic, speaking to Amber Miller, 38, during a homeless encampment sweep on Ellis Street between Taylor and Jones Streets by San Francisco Public Works on Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023.

5. Christopher Jones, 51, moving his belongings during a homeless encampment sweep on Ellis Street between Taylor and Jones Streets by San Francisco Public Works on Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023. Christopher Jones has been living homeless since 1995.

6. Jeff Fultz (jacket with “I Have Issues”), 52, moving his belongings during a homeless encampment sweep on Ellis Street between Taylor and Jones Streets by San Francisco Public Works on Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023.

7. Eddie Thomas, 57, during a homeless encampment sweep on Ellis Street between Taylor and Jones Streets by San Francisco Public Works on Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023.

8. Homeless encampment sweep on Taylor Street between Ellis and Eddy Streets by San Francisco Public Works on Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023.

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[amygdalae]

have never understood why squatting is considered a crime. loitering too. sir you have been arrested for the crime of....chilling. and hanging out. and taking a little nap

[trans-girl-stuff451]

My home town is destroying a homeless encampment and refusing to give any of the displaced people any resources or other options

I find this incredibly inhumane, and if you do, please flood their homeless reporting site with how you feel(it allowes you to submit anonymously)

I can't describe how angry this makes me please help me do something about it

https://denvergov.org/Online-Services-Hub/Report-an-Issue/issue/new-report

[ppcbug]

Across Canada people are seeing the cost of living becoming more and more expensive each year. Now higher end areas are even seeing the effects of this. Yorkville is slowly seeing tents creep its way into its luxury strip and if things continue tents will inevitably appear in your backyard too.

It’s time for a change.

#voteppc to make life more affordable

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Eric Kaufmann

Published: Jul 17, 2025

Will the Trump administration’s war against antisemitism on Ivy League campuses push Jewish students into the Republican camp, or will the young right’s growing skepticism of Israel leave Jewish students politically isolated?

In my new report, “Jewish Inhibition, Conservative Freedom: New Trends in Expressive Freedom on Elite American Campuses,” I discovered something startling in the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE)’s large-scale student surveys. The proportion of Jewish students at Ivy League institutions who said they self-censored their opinions several times a week jumped from 10%-13% during 2021-23 to 35% in 2024. At the same time, conservative Ivy League students experienced a big drop in self-censoring, from 55%-58% during 2021-23 to 31% in 2024. The pattern could be seen across the full range of colleges, but was most pronounced in prestigious universities whose students lean left.

A closer look at the 2024 data shows that the pro-Palestinian tent encampments had a big impact: Before they went up on April 17, 28% of Ivy League Jewish students self-censored. Afterward, 40% did. Across all institutions in the FIRE data, statistical analysis shows that the encampments increased Jewish self-censorship while reducing it for conservatives. Conservative speech has for years been the least free of any major demographic, but Jews have now converged with them. In the Ivy League, Jews now self-censor more than conservatives do.

Why would Jewish elite students feel more inhibited at precisely the time conservative students feel freer? The main reason seems to be that student-led cancel culture pivoted from focusing on race and gender to foregrounding Israel-Palestine. As recently as 2022, FIRE data shows that nearly two-thirds of student-on-student targeting revolved around perceived race or gender transgressions. By 2024, 65% focused on Israel-Palestine, with just 25% concerning race or gender.

This took heat off conservative students and placed it on Jews. I argue that this is because race and gender are central to the identity politics ideology of the campus left while Israel-Palestine is somewhat secondary: Though it can be shoehorned into a racial frame, it primarily concerns the actions of a faraway state. Conservatives are viewed negatively primarily because of the left’s sense that they are moral transgressors on race or gender, not because of their views on Israel. This was especially true under the Biden administration when the FIRE surveys I examined were fielded, with leftist animus over Middle East politics directed principally at the Democratic establishment.

One result of the left’s pivot to Israel-Palestine has been to alienate many Jewish students from the far left, and, to a lesser degree, from the left in general. Prior to 2024, FIRE data shows that Jews leaned left of the average American student, including on elite campuses. But, according to the 2024 data, most Jewish students, even liberals, support Israel while non-Jewish students, apart from conservatives, do not. For instance, American students in 2024 were somewhat more likely to say that Israel rather than Hamas caused the “2023 outbreak of violence in the Middle East.” Among liberal Jewish students, 53% said Hamas started the violence and 20% that Israel did, placing them far closer to conservative Jews, 83% of whom said Hamas started it, than liberal non-Jews, just 14% of whom blamed Hamas.

When the encampments went up on elite campuses, Jewish students abandoned the far left in droves. The share of Jewish Ivy League students who identify as “very liberal” on a 7-point ideology scale declined from 40% before the encampments to 13% after they appeared. The proportion of “strong Democrats” tanked from 37% to 14% while the Republican share rose from 12% to 18%. Ivy League Jews went from being well to the left of the median Ivy League student to leaning right of the average.

But non-Jewish conservative students have not rallied to Israel, and clearly do not feel chilled by the left’s protests against Israel. While conservative students are twice as likely to blame Hamas as Israel for starting hostilities in October 2023, most see both as culpable or have no opinion. Just 38% blame Hamas. This means that liberal Jewish students are considerably more pro-Israel (53% blame Hamas) than conservative non-Jews.

Young conservatives prioritize “America First” and free speech over supporting Israel and combating antisemitism. Recent polling finds that conservatives under 50 have shifted from nearly two-thirds support for Israel to a balanced position. A University of Maryland poll finds that more Republicans under 35 attribute campus protests to Israel’s actions in Gaza than to antisemitism.

So conservative students on elite campuses have a weak sense of linked fate with Jewish students who are feeling hard-pressed by their liberal non-Jewish classmates. The result is an increasingly isolated and politically alienated group of elite Jewish students, who are likely to have an outsize influence on the future of Jewish American political loyalty.

Jewish students are at a crossroads.

Much depends on how the Trump administration’s targeting of elite universities unfolds. If it solidifies the connection between Israel and conservatism on campus, Jewish students could move into the Republican column in larger numbers. If conservative students follow suit by embracing the cause of Israel, this could smooth the path for Jews to move right. Liberal students could then react by policing the right-wing minority more aggressively, reversing conservatives’ recent gains in freedom of expression.

But another scenario is possible, in which the Tucker Carlson isolationist wing of the MAGA movement detaches young Republicans from Israel. Trump could make a deal with Harvard, Columbia, and other universities, weakening the focus on antisemitism. If so, Jewish students—and perhaps American Jews more broadly—could find themselves caught between the antipathy of the left and the apathy of the right in a no-man’s-land of political alienation.

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And the rising antisemitism of both.

[thoughtportal]

Please show up to your local government meetings. It makes a difference. a big difference.

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Join CalMatters Deputy Editor Adam Ashton and Homelessness Reporter Marisa Kendall for an in-depth conversation about encampment sweeps across the state and what it means.

Tuesday, November 19, 2024 | 11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Register at https://bit.ly/homelessencampmentsweeps

In June, the Supreme Court gave cities in California and beyond more power to crack down on homeless encampments. Gov. Gavin Newsom has responded with demands of sweeps. Cities and counties struggle to clear encampments and find a place for those living on the street to stay.

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>Providence police will force two homeless encampments out. Where will they go?

Encampment will be cleared this weekend

On Sunday, Barnett, 40, will be forced out of the place she calls home, along with 60 to 70 other residents, as Providence police push them out of two encampments with a standard 48 hours worth of notice.