At USA a camp was evacuated homeless which was within breathing distance of him White House and to be precise at a distance of only 300 meters, as it was considered a threat.
“The police knocked on our door around 6 in the morning” said the Daniel Kingery, one of the last homeless people who had refused to leave the park, which became a symbol of destitution in a city that embodies power and elites. Many others had already packed up and left.
The 61-year-old barefoot man with a long, white beard claims he was the first, about three years ago, to camp in this public garden. The “camp” developed into one of the largest in the city, mainly because other camps elsewhere were evacuated in the meantime.
In November, authorities announced they planned to evacuate McPherson Square by April. They finally moved to evict the homeless today “for health and safety reasons and because the encampment’s expansion threatened the effectiveness of social service assistance,” the federal National Park Service (NPS) said in a statement.
From early in the morning “we saw many people who were afraid, who were worried because they didn’t know where they were going,” said Amanda Misico Andere, the director of an organization that helps the homeless. “We should be ashamed to be on a street next to the White Houseon a road from a government that declared housing to be its priority, they failed to close a camp humanely, i.e. by getting these people under a roof“, he added.
The city services assure that they offered the homeless of the square various temporary relocation solutions, but they rejected them. According to the most recent data available, in 2021 there were approximately 5,000 homeless people in Washington.
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Source: News Beast
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