Sweeps are not only immoral, they are counterproductive. They leave vulnerable worse off and many times set them back further from getting the support they need to get housed.
jonlink
ProPublica spoke to dozens of people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.”
We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.
➡️ This is what they wrote: https://propub.li/4veRIqA
