KERA News Tents are set up steps away from City Hall, at Pioneer Plaza, in downtown Dallas, as a way to protest the city’s treatment of the homeless community.
Dallas city officials began shutting down the homeless encampment known as Camp Rhonda last month, but organizers reopened the temporary site downtown in hopes of getting city leaders to find solutions to the housing problems. Now, it s closed again.
Earlier this week, a group of people experiencing homelessness ventured to downtown Dallas and began to set up an encampment one block away from City Hall. They called it Camp Rhonda.