Sentence examples for spread of encampments from inspiring English sources
The city historically has had limited involvement in financing housing, but the spread of encampments in many neighborhoods in recent years made homelessness a potent political issue.
The spread of encampments has created a political problem for city officials, who are inundated by complaints about trash and mentally ill and potentially violent homeless people.
It took an alarming 12% jump in homelessness from 2013 to 2015 and the spread of encampments across Los Angeles for city and county officials to finally create coordinated homelessness strategies.
A cholera outbreak in a rural area of northwestern Haiti has killed more than 150 people and overwhelmed local hospitals with thousands of the sick, the World Health Organization said Friday, increasing long-held fears of an epidemic that could spread to the encampments sheltering more than a million Haitians displaced by the January earthquake.
The spread of long-term homelessness in L.A. County has alarmed communities from Sylmar to San Pedro, where residents complain that their quality of life is threatened by crime and trash from unsightly encampments.
Occupy found tremendous value in centralizing on the tactic of encampment, centralizing their physical resources within the encampments, and centralizing deliberation formats through General Assemblies and working groups.
Aid workers are hurriedly trying to survey the needs of the Kuchis, a task made more difficult because the nomads live spread out in small encampments.
Sizes of nomadic encampments also varied from south to north.
And that law, officials said, is the legal basis for the planned removal of homeless encampments.
Census officials were given a helicopter tour of hidden encampments.
Spread across hundreds of acres of this dusty military base, the scout encampment still offers boys the chance to partake in the activities that their fathers and grandfathers enjoyed — fly-fishing, reading a compass, rustling up a meal.
