“Last year the word was ‘get out...
“Last year the word was ‘get out of town.’ This year the message is: ‘You can sleep on the sidewalk, when no one is looking.’ ”
--Alice Callaghan, director of Las Familias del Pueblo, a service organization for homeless people, after a group of about 75 men and women who have camped for months in makeshift homes on a downtown street were warned that they were to be moved at 6 a.m. today.
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