Local residents say new encampments spring up as soon as the old ones are knocked down
Groups of homeless are digging out caves and erecting camps to live in along the Stanislaus River in California, just miles away where people were discovered in caves dug into the banks of another waterway earlier this week, according to a report.
Residents of towns just north of Modesto said the shanties are replaced as quickly as they are razed, and homeless people are burrowing into caves under Highways 108 and 120, CBS News Sacramento reported.
“I’m sure everyone who drives down Highway 120 there should be worried about it,” resident Eddie Eagleton told the station.
“As soon as they get kicked out, the night after they get kicked out, they just start digging,” he said. “Doesn’t seem like anyone can slow them down or stop them.”
Eagleton, who fishes in the Stanislaus River, said he has seen the camps near Riverbank for years, pointing out that the homeless build wooden shacks and burrow into the riverbank.