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What I Learned Reporting in Cities That Take Belongings from Homeless People
Some cities take people’s belongings — ignoring their own policies and court orders — and then fail to store them. Our reporting shows there are more effective and compassionate ways to deal with homeless encampments.
Over the past year, my colleagues Ruth Talbot, Asia Fields, Maya Miller and I have investigated how cities have sometimes ignored their own policies and court orders, which has resulted in them taking homeless people’s belongings during encampment clearings. President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to ban urban camping and “get the homeless off our streets,” by creating “tent cities” and by making it easier to institutionalize people with severe mental illness. “We have gone all in on sweeps, and we have not really explored other options,” said Megan Welsh Carroll, co-founder and director of the Project for Sanitation Justice at San Diego State University, who has advocated for spaces where people experiencing homelessness can shower and use the restroom.
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