‘Makeshift tents and cardboard boxes’: Kern County homeless shelter director discusses encampment sweeps

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — Bakersfield and Kern County are on the forefront of clearing homeless encampments and you can submit an encampment complaint to code enforcement.

The question still looms…what defines a homeless encampment?

Homeless shelters around town are routinely full, depending on the time of year. In fact, the chair of the Bakersfield-Kern Regional Homeless Collaborative says shelters are full upwards of 95% every single day…

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