Residents ‘stressed’ as crews bulldoze Allentown homeless encampment

ALLENTOWN, Pa. — A bulldozer rolled through a homeless encampment along Jordan Creek on Monday morning as the mayor’s eviction took effect.

Crews showed up before 8 a.m. and got to work when the clock hit the hour mark, according to some residents still sitting nearby several hours later.

“[I’m] stressed,” one resident, Dana, said as he and others listened to the constant beeping of heavy machinery clearing the camp a few hundreds yards away on the other side of a line of trees…

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