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Denver struggling to deal with homeless encampments

Denver police officers turn back two women as they offer to clear belongings of their homeless relative from a homeless camp around a small park near the Denver Rescue Mission. The city has spent months urging the campers to move into shelters and get rid of makeshift structures that officials say pose a health hazard.

Denver police officers turn back two women as they offer to clear belongings of their homeless relative from a homeless camp around a small park near the Denver Rescue Mission. The city has spent months urging the campers to move into shelters and get rid of makeshift structures that officials say pose a health hazard.

  (David Zalubowski / Associated Press)

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With a surging economy, a high-end real estate market and a corner on the legal marijuana trade, Denver is clearing out homeless encampments.

Homelessness in Denver

Homeless people clear their belongings from a camp near the Denver Rescue Mission in Denver.

  (David Zalubowski / Associated Press)

Homelessness in Denver

Salvatore Garofalo sits in a lawn chair in a makeshift homeless camp across from the Denver Rescue Mission in downtown Denver. City officials are planning to evict people from the homeless camps that have popped up around homeless shelters and in public places around the Mile High City.

  (David Zalubowski / Associated Press)

Homelessness in Denver

As Denver police officers look on, homeless people gather their belongings and leave a camp around a small park near the Denver Rescue Mission.

  (David Zalubowski / Associated Press)

Homelessness in Denver

A sign hangs on a fence around the Samaritan House with a new high-rise apartment building in the background as homeless people from a camp are moved by Denver officials.

  (David Zalubowski / Associated Press)

Homelessness in Denver

A Denver police officer uses a camera to shoot video of bystanders as crews of inmates help clear belongings of homeless people from a camp near the Denver Rescue Mission.

  (David Zalubowski / Associated Press)

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