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Businesses complained about homeless camps. Now Kansas City Council might criminalize them

An ordinance before council would make loitering and camping on private property illegal. The proposal comes a year after encampments in Westport and outside City Hall drew attention to the challenges facing Kansas City's unhoused residents. ....

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