ATLANTA (AP) — Allen Hall called it a “very emotional experience” as he boarded a bus with more than 20 other former residents of an Atlanta homeless encampment where a close friend had been fatally injured earlier this year by a bulldozer that struck his tent.
Although the city and its partners secured housing by mid-July for everyone they thought lived in the downtown encampment along Old Wheat Street, Hall and seven others moved temporarily into a hotel funded by advocates.
“It was like something was changing for us, for real,” Hall said, recalling the day this summer when friends and acquaintances moved into apartments after spending years sleeping on sidewalks…