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Yakima Orders Homeless to Move to New Encampment
Yakima Orders Homeless to Move to New Encampment
Yakima Orders Homeless to Move to New Encampment
YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) — Yakima officials are ordering residents of a homeless encampment to pack up and move, offering them a place to relocate near the city police department. The Yakima Herald-Republic reports that a notice handed to the residents Thursday says they must leave the campsite by Monday...
No easy answers for helping Yakima's homeless
No easy answers for helping Yakima's homeless
No easy answers for helping Yakima's homeless
Homelessness is a problem all across the country. A national report called the State of Homelessness in America 2015 says nearly 600,000 people are without permanent residences. Yakima is no exception, but the ongoing effort to help may in fact be adding to a growing concern about bad behaviors by the homeless along East Yakima Avenue.