The Brief
- Hamoudi Sabri is set to appear in civil court on Thursday as he battles the city over a homeless encampment.
- Sabri allowed an encampment on his parking lot at East Lake Street and 28th Avenue South over the summer.
- The encampment was cleared in September after a mass shooting.
MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) – A Minneapolis property owner fighting the city over a homeless encampment he maintained in his vacant lot appeared in civil court on Thursday.
Minneapolis encampment battle
The backstory:
In mid-July, Hamoudi Sabri opened his vacant lot at East Lake Street and 28th Avenue South as a homeless encampment. The city says, within two days of opening, 20 people moved onto the property. Within a week, there were 60 people living in the encampment.
The city claims conditions quickly deteriorated at the encampment, with the city declaring the area a public health nuisance on July 21. Then, in September, the city cleared the homeless encampment after a mass shooting – that police say stemmed from a drug territory dispute – which left one person dead and six others hurt.…