Shop owners across US take action as homeless camps threaten business, safety

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From suing their city to moving out to hiring panhandlers — how small businesses across the US are dealing with the growing homeless problem outside (and sometimes inside) their doors.

across the US, each day has become a question mark for business owners like Frem and their staffs.

When Bowen called the cops, he said, each visit ended with the NYPD telling him that their hands were tied by the legal system. Last year, Bowen reopened his sports bar at a new address on Third Avenue between 93rd and 94th Street. East End was previously located at the intersection of First Avenue and 87th Street.

“There’s all these recessed doorways,” Palmer said. “Because of the rain, a lot of the homeless end up here… leaving bottles and drugs, and you know, paraphernalia and those things.” The judge in the case released an order back in May 2020, citing freeway overpasses, like the one by Exclusive Motors, as unsafe and unacceptable places to live., declaring that his landmark lawsuit had reshaped the homeless crisis. But had it, really?yet to be disbanded or movedJohn McMillan, the man Bismore temporarily hired, has now gotten sober and has a long-term place to live.On the upside, Frem pointed out: “[The encampment] cannot grow more.

 

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