The city has backed down on its plan to raze a homeless encampment of roughly 30 people living under the I-83 overpass after its intentions were disclosed by The Brew.

Residents of the encampment said they were told last week that they had to leave, and in an email to a reporter, mayoral spokesman James Bentley II confirmed plans to clear people from the city-owned lot at Guilford Avenue and Centre Street. Bentley later clarified that the deadline was this Thursday, November 19.

After widespread criticism of the decision by Mayor Bernard C. “Jack” Young to displace vulnerable people during a pandemic – with no specific plan for where they were to go – the camp clearing was called off today.

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