Homeless encampments cleared in multiple cities, leaving dozens displaced.
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Dozens of homeless people living in tents on Portland's Bayside Trail were forced to move as the city cleared the encampment, citing health and safety risks. The city is currently sheltering about 1,200 people on a nightly basis, and all city shelters are full. Advocates have expressed concerns about the risks and trauma that clearing the encampment could bring to the people living there. The situation has highlighted the homelessness crisis in Portland and the state.
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- Maine's largest city removes sprawling homeless encampment outside downtown The Associated Press
- 'None of us have a place to go': Portland starts clearing out Bayside homeless encampment WGME
- In Lents, livability collides with chronically homeless KOIN.com
- Activists protest possible clearing of 2nd New Haven encampment New Haven Register
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