College Hills homeowner says city misstep led to woman squatting next door

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) – A College Hills homeowner says a quiet Birmingham street has turned into a weeklong ordeal after a woman began staying at a house next door — a property he says has been abandoned for years.

Darryl Timmons says the situation began shortly after the city cleared a homeless encampment from nearby Linn Park. Not long after that cleanup, he says, a woman was dropped off at the vacant home beside his.

Video recorded by Timmons appears to show Birmingham’s homeless outreach partner, Urban Alchemy, leaving the woman at the property. Since then, Timmons said the woman has repeatedly returned despite multiple attempts by the city to intervene…

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