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Phoenix (AFP) - On a sidewalk in Arizona's capital Phoenix, where a record-setting heat wave has prompted warnings for people to limit their time outside, Dana Page struggles to stay hydrated in her tarpaulin shelter. The 49-year-old, surrounded by bottles of water, knows full well the dangers heat poses to the homeless population. Days earlier, she watched emergency responders perform CPR on a fellow resident of "The Zone," an encampment where hundreds live in tents and makeshift shelters, near downtown. "He died just inches away from water," she told AFP. Phoenix, like much of the US southwe...
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Washington (AFP) - Security agents and sanitary personnel on Wednesday cleared out a longstanding encampment of homeless people in a leafy Washington plaza just steps from the White House. As downtown office workers looked on, the agents pulled down makeshift tents and dumped homeless campers' personal belongings into garbage trucks at McPherson Square. "The (National) Park Police showed up at about six o'clockish or so," Daniel Kingery, a 61-year-old man living in the park, told AFP. Dozens of tents had filled the makeshift camp in a plaza two blocks from both the White House and the US Treas...
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New York (AFP) - In a scene that has become increasingly common in New York, police dismantled a homeless encampment but none of the people there agreed to be relocated into a shelter, fearing such places are dangerous. While anti-eviction campaigners booed and a massive police presence looked on as the site was emptied Wednesday, sanitation workers dumped blue tents and piles of clothes, blankets and rubbish into a dumpster. Police arrested several activists, as well as a homeless man who resisted the eviction after hours of negotiations, including the offer that occupants could keep their ...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Tents, makeshift shelters and dilapidated campervans line the streets of Skid Row as Mike Murase and his team tally the exploding population of homeless people in Los Angeles. In the United States' second biggest city, the unhoused huddle by small fires, trying to keep warm on one of the coldest nights of the year. Homelessness is "an intractable, stubborn issue that the politicians and agency leaders have not had the will to try to solve," 75-year-old Murase tells AFP. Murase and his colleagues criss-cross the dozen-or-so roads they have been assigned as part of a three-da...
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