The planned efforts this week have drawn attention from neighborhood residents, and they come amid a newly intense focus on the neighborhood from City Hall.
Mayor Parker’s administration boosts Kensington outreach, police presence ahead of encampment clearing
Police Commissioner Kevin J. Bethel said about 75 people are living in the area and that the clearing is part of a “normal process of removing encampments.” The city has for years conducted “encampment resolutions,” during which people are warned to vacate an area a month before a scheduled clearing.The city will soon begin a longer-term, multi-phased effort to more strictly enforce laws in the neighborhood, but Bethel declined to specify the timeline.
in the neighborhood, including Prevention Point, a large social services provider that operates the city’s oldest syringe exchange and has been credited with helping prevent the spread of infectious disease. Until last week, she had served two meals a day, three days a week, from that table, feeding about 200 people, she said. She also ran a makeshift shelter in the lot behind it, out of two prefabricated sheds-turned-tiny homes and an RV that together could house about eight.
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