MODESTO — Change is happening at the hidden homeless caves in Modesto along the Tuolumne River after a story we first brought you on CBS13 on Tuesday.
On Wednesday, City of Modesto crews and the police department were putting up barricades and caution tape to keep people out of the homeless caves.
“People were actually taking this serious as a safety hazard, which is what I have always identified it as,” said Tracy Rojas, who lives in the neighborhood near the homeless caves.
Rojas took us inside one of the eight caves that were cleared out over the weekend.
“Somebody has spent a lot of time going through this and putting this together,” she said.
Some neighbors had no idea about the rent-free living happening 20 feet below them until we showed them.
CBS13 continued to take the community’s concerns to the city and police but got no direct answers on a plan moving forward.
“A lot of my neighbors didn’t want to talk to the media,” Rojas said. “They were nervous of retaliation from the homeless people.”