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Outreach workers and residents tell Dayton council encampment clearings disrupt care; city urges coordinated process
Summary
Several outreach workers and residents told the Dayton City Council that recent encampment clearings have disrupted continuity of care and housing placements. City staff said a multi-department process exists and pledged to review best-practice guidance and improve coordination with outreach teams.
Outreach workers, service providers and residents told the Dayton City Council that abrupt clearings of homeless encampments are breaking connections between outreach teams and people experiencing homelessness, hindering access to treatment, medication and housing placements.
Speakers from Miami Valley Housing Opportunities, harm-reduction providers and neighborhood volunteers said encampment sweeps have caused people on housing wait lists or in treatment to disappear from outreach workers— visibility, creating delays in placing clients and sometimes resulting in lost medications and identification.
Andy Altenberg, an outreach worker with Miami Valley Housing…
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