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Four police cruisers and three construction trucks park on a field in North Dallas under I-35. They were there to clear the people and belongings from the Camp Goodnight homeless encampment that s been set up on the property.
The owner of the North Dallas property that Camp Goodnight sits on said fines from the city and complaints from neighboring businesses have left him with no choice but to ask people to find somewhere else to stay.
Thursday morning, a construction crew and eight Dallas police officers arrived at Camp Goodnight to clear out the encampment and anyone staying there.
Listen • 1:08 1 of 3 Volunteers with Food Not Bombs Dallas build raised beds for the community garden at Camp Rhonda, on Sun., April 11. 2 of 3 Raised garden beds are seen among the tent community at Camp Rhonda, on Mon., April 12. Residents are skeptical the garden will be fruitful enough for the whole community. 3 of 3 Two shopping carts, one green and one silver, have been lined with fabric so they can hold soil. They were set up as makeshift, portable herb gardens with rosemary, thyme, and mint.
To help combat food insecurity among the homeless population in Dallas, volunteers came together over the weekend to build a community garden for Camp Rhonda. But not all of the encampment s residents are happy about the project.
For Americans with a fixed address or a bank account, the third stimulus payment has arrived without them needing to lift a finger. It simply showed up in their checking account or mailbox.
But not for Dallas’ unsheltered homeless population, who lack fixed addresses and often don’t have a bank account. Some even lack basic identification. As much as they could use the money, many unsheltered people in Dallas simply fall through the bureaucratic cracks.
This is certainly the case for more than half a dozen residents of Camp Rhonda, the embattled homeless encampment in southern Dallas.
The city of Dallas has forced or pressured the camp to move twice: first in February after the city issued a code violation to the property owner where the camp originally was formed, and again in early March when dozens of cops pushed the camp out of Pioneer Park near City Hall.
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