Sentences with phrase «homeless encampment»

A "homeless encampment" refers to a temporary settlement or gathering of people who do not have permanent housing and are forced to live together in tents, makeshift shelters, or other temporary structures in public spaces like parks or streets. Full definition
He observed the massive homeless encampment in Downtown Los Angeles just a few blocks from Hauser, Wirth & Schimmel.
While he has taken photographs in Rome, Baltimore, and elsewhere, Hernandez has, for more than four decades, persistently documented the oft - overlooked urban scenery of his native southern California — from the manicured storefronts and mannequinesque denizens of Beverly Hills to the remnants of homeless encampments improvised on the margins of the urban landscape.
Homeless Services workers will canvass every block in Manhattan between Canal Street and 145th Street and aim to respond to within one hour to any calls from residents about homeless encampments.
At one point in the speech, de Blasio announced the city had helped clear out 30 different homeless encampments this year.
NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton took in the sights and smells of a notorious homeless encampment in Harlem Friday, a day after The Post reported on the city's failed efforts to...
He trumpeted DHS's work clearing and cleaning longtime homeless encampments, but such work does not necessarily get rid of the guy taking a leak on a given newspaper editor's block.
June 23, 2015 • The Los Angeles City Council is set to give final approval to 2 ordinances that would make it easier for police to clear homeless encampments.
Two blocks away from the hearing in Santa Ana, a sprawling homeless encampment remains in front of the courthouse.
The series title is poetic yet specific: «A decade since I started this project, and more than that since I began shooting homeless encampments, the homeless population of Los Angeles has only increased.
His series include street photography focused on Downtown Los Angeles, Rodeo Drive and an acclaimed series, Landscapes for the Homeless, of vacant homeless encampments.
HW&S is banking in part on LA's ability to meaningfully address the intractable homeless encampments in downtown, a mayoral promise that has yet to materialize.
On December 1, Mayor Murray announced the establishment of three new homeless encampment sites in Licton Springs, Georgetown and Myers Way in West Seattle.
«While we didn't have any trouble with building codes, we did have to get the City of Olympia to pass a zoning code amendment to allow us to build what they called a «permanent homeless encampment» on «property owned by the county in a light industrial zone,»» says Severn.
Not willing to call Twitter's bluff, the city offered a deal to the company, which now works out of space in the gritty but fashionable South of Market district where many Internet start - ups begin: move to a building in the even more gritty and decidedly less fashionable mid-Market neighborhood — on a section of Market Street that is marred by drug dealing, homeless encampments and shuttered storefronts — and get a payroll tax exemption.
311 Calls In the past five years, there was a 72 percent increase in 311 calls reporting a homeless person in need of assistance or a homeless encampment.
After proving her strong grasp of the Nativity story by evicting a homeless encampment known as «Sanctuary City» over the weekend, Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren demonstrated her mastery of social media by telling a homeless advocate to STFU via a Facebook message.
For the past twenty - five years she has served as national director of the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign, helping to lead marches, tent cities, homeless encampments, sit - ins and Read more»
Writer - director Andrew Haigh is British, and his outsider's eye probably accounts in part for the film's lyrically askew vision of working - class fringes — the trailer homes, run - down fairgrounds, and homeless encampments.
They could just as easily protest without continuing to erect structures that must be torn down, they could clean up after themselves and not live like a homeless encampment, and they could cover their own costs.
Operating on a shoe - string budget, four - legged clients were seen and treated in makeshift clinics located in basements, lobbies, courtyards and sidewalks, in abandoned grocery stores and warehouses, and in a variety of parks and homeless encampments.
Donations of pet food and supplies can be taken to 73 Limerick Center Rd., Limerick, PA that will be delivered to a local food bank, homeless shelter or homeless encampment.
Staring at the big painting in the small space from below, it takes me a minute to realize the festive palette is owed to the colorful tents of a homeless encampment in the foreground.
Homeless encampments are growing.
Homeless encampments are spreading.»
«On a stormy night in January, I tagged along with DeCaprio as he drove to a city commission meeting about a homeless encampment in Berkeley.
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